On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:48:47PM +0200, roach wrote: > On Wednesday 25 January 2006 20:10, Jon Miller wrote: > <...> > > LOCSAV="/usr/local/sop" > > if [ -e $(ls -l $LOCSAV/*.ide) ] > > it comes up with an error, can some lend a hand in fixing this? > > Why make it so complicated? > And what was, the exact, error message? > What shell are you using? > > Try: > > if [ -e $LOCSAV/*.ide ] > > ... it works here, with bash.
I don't think it will work if you have more than one such file. if [ `ls $LOCSAV | grep '.ide$'` > 0 ] might do the trick. > > BTW, please set your list mail to text only. Your mailer's sending text, HTML > and an error message. > > Thanks. > All the best. > > -- > Robert "roach" Spencer > Pietermaritzburg > South Africa > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- David Jardine "Running Debian GNU/Linux and loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
