Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:34:02 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Subject: Re: why is this script failing? Message-ID: <200807142234.03070.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <20080714201241.GA22443@thought.org> References: <20080714201241.GA22443@thought.org>
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On Monday 14 July 2008 22:12:47 Gary Kline wrote:
> people,
>
> for reasons i don't understand completely, i wind up with
> *wav* files in my /tmp/kde-kline/* directory. plus othr misc junk
> files.
>
> why is this script not finding them?
>
>
> wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\*
>
> if [ -s $wav ]
Hint: this works, if there's only 1 wav file.
The way to do it:
if test ! -z "$wav"; then
for f in $wav; do
rm $f
done
else
echo "No wav files"
fi
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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