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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 17:23:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To: David Chamberlain <DavidC@OIAPDX.yoshida.com>
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Subject: Re: Stupid shell question
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On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, David Chamberlain wrote:
> I am trying to write an if statement in a shell script that executes a
> series of lines if *any* file exists in a specified directory.  Ie:
> 
> if [ file exists in send dir ]

cd sned_dir
for i in *			# if send_dir is empty $i gets set to a literal "*"
do
	if [ -f $i ]	# make sure $i is a regular file
	then
		do this
		and this
	fi
done

Have fun

Dan
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