[ALUG] Re: Little wild card/scripting problem

3 Nov 2005


      On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 10:59:56AM +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
...
Chris Green <chris@areti.co.uk> writes:
...
The 'for i in *' means that the files are processed in the order shown
above with the 'server' files before the 'halkidiki' ones.  I want to
*guarantee* that the 'halkidiki' ones come first, can anyone come up
with a way of doing this?
for i in *halkidiki* *server*
Doesn't work because not all the directories have both server and
halkidiki files.
for i in *halkidiki* *server*; do
    if [ -e "$i" ]; then
      # clever things
    fi
  done
Ah, yes, how simple, thanks!

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Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)

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