[linux-help] Re: Quick BASH/Perl Question

[Curtis Hawthorne <cghawthorne@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all your help, everyone!  Works great.
--- Tom Hull <thull@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> > 
> > Using John's answer, the following will easily
> work
> > 
> > for fname in `ls *.log`
> > do
> >     if [ -f ${fname} ]; then
> >         echo "${fname} exists"
> >     fi
> > done
> 
> ls(1) will only print the names of files which
> exist, so the
> test -f is not necessary. fname will not be set if
> there are
> no *.log files.
> 
> however, ls will print an ugly error message to
> stderr, so
> 
>   2>/dev/null
> 
> may be advised. also, if *.log returns a directory,
> ls will
> print out a list of its contents, which is not what
> you want.
> ergo:
> 
>   for fname in `ls -d *.log 2>/dev/null`
>   do
>     echo "${fname} exists"
>   done
> 
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