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From: Frank Terbeck <ft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [[ -f file* ]]
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 13:40:40 +0200
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Matt Wozniski <godlygeek@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:14 AM, Atom Smasher wrote:
> > if i want to test for the presence of one or more files matching a certain
> > pattern, it seems non-trivial to do it with the normal "test" or conditional
> > expressions.
> ...
> > is there a better way?
> 
> Well, off the top of my head, I can think of
> 
> [ -n "$(print -- test*(N))" ]
> 
> but even that seems inelegant; I'm sure someone can chime in with
> something better.

How about this:

[snip]
set -- test*(N)
(( $# > 0 ))
[snap]

Regards, Frank

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References:
- [[ -f file* ]]
  - From: Atom Smasher
- Re: [[ -f file* ]]
  - From: Matt Wozniski

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