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Re: checking for file existence when I don't know the exact name
2011/10/24 Jérémie Roquet <arkanosis@xxxxxxxxx>
> From the man, section “conditional expressions” :
>
> “File generation is not performed on any form of argument to conditions.”
>
This isn't file _generation_, is it? Or am I not understanding zsh's terms?
TjL
ps -- thanks to the other responders as well. Glad to know I wasn't just
doing it wrong, but that it just doesn't work the way I thought. I guess I
still don't fully understand why / when to use [[ ]] instead of [ ]
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