[ale] searching for files....

[James Sumners]

Maybe something similar to this bash script (which I think will work):

files=`ls -1A`
for f in $files; do
    [ -f $f ]
        [ -e subdir/$f ] echo "subdir/$f.data exists"
done

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Jim Popovitch <yahoo at jimpop.com> wrote:
> I've a large directory of files which match the pattern [\.a-z]*, in
> the same directory is a related set of files matching [\.a-z]*\.data.
>  What I would like to do is locate all [\.a-z]* which don't have a
> corresponding .data file.    Ideas?
>
> Thx,


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