On 9 July 2014 17:11, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:

This really sounds simple but I can't think of a neat way of doing it, I want to test (in bash) if there's any file with a specific suffix in a particular directory.

Print the filenames in the directory and grep for the suffix at the end of the line?

Or write a C program to do it? That way, you could re-use that whenever you need to write a similar script.

Regards, Srdjan

Use Python

import os import fnmatch for f in fnmatch.filter(os.listdir(os.curdir),'*.sfx'): print f

On 9 July 2014 17:11, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:

This really sounds simple but I can't think of a neat way of doing it, I want to test (in bash) if there's any file with a specific suffix in a particular directory.

This means I can't use "[ -f <filename> ]" because I don't know the filename and I don't see how I can use "[ *.sfx ]" because if there are no *.sfx files the string is still not empty.

I suppose I could say something like "[ *.sfx = '*.sfx' ]" but it's a quoting nightmare.

Any better ideas?

-- Chris Green

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