[Cialug] [OT]: Shell script globbing

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

I like that solution. It relies on 2 external programs (ls and wc), but 
doesn't require variables or a for loop. Thanks!

On Thursday 20 December 2007 13:07, Chris Freeman wrote:
>I would do this:
>
>if [ `ls *.bad | wc -l` -gt 0 ]
>   then
>   echo Bad
>   fi
>
>> I have what should be a simple shell scripting problem. If any .bad
>> files exist, then the script should do some stuff (display an error,
>> do some cleanup, and exit, though for testing i've simplified it).
>> So far i've come up with 2 solutions, one requiring a variable and
>> running "ls", the other requiring a seemingly superfluous "for"
>> loop. Is there a more elegant solution i've not discovered?

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