Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 17:23:37 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: David Chamberlain <DavidC@OIAPDX.yoshida.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Stupid shell question Message-ID: <Pine.UW2.3.95.970207172002.2651A-100000@cedb> In-Reply-To: <s2fb4de8.025@yoshida.com>
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On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, David Chamberlain wrote: > I am trying to write an if statement in a shell script that executes a > series of lines if *any* file exists in a specified directory. Ie: > > if [ file exists in send dir ] cd sned_dir for i in * # if send_dir is empty $i gets set to a literal "*" do if [ -f $i ] # make sure $i is a regular file then do this and this fi done Have fun Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82
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