[ale] bash scripting question

Danny Cox danscox at mindspring.com
Thu Sep 11 17:26:13 EDT 2003


Another variant:

[ $(echo *.c | wc -w) -gt 0 ]

echo is a shell built-in.

On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 20:21, David Corbin wrote:
> I like....
> 
> [ `ls ... | wc -l ` -gt 0 ]
> 
> On Wednesday 10 September 2003 19:49, Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
> > I need a boolean statement that will evaluate to true if one or more files
> > matching a wildcard exist.  I tried [ -f ... ], it works if there is
> > exactly one matching file, but not if there are more.

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Danny



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