[ale] bash scripting question

[Geoffrey]

George Carless wrote:
> 
> At 07:56 PM 9/10/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> 
>> Kevin Krumwiede wrote:
>>
>>> I need a boolean statement that will evaluate to true if one or more
>>> files matching a wildcard exist.  I tried [ -f ... ], it works if
>>> there is exactly one matching file, but not if there are more.
>>
>>
>> You can't use wild card char. in the  [ -f .. ], your best bet is a 
>> case statement.
>>
>> You could do it with a for loop:
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Or just pipe ls to grep?

For that matter echo piped to grep...

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