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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: ksh: Checking for file existence
Message-ID: <1991Jun15.031252.6351@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 15 Jun 91 03:12:52 GMT
References: <91165.101842RS0VRD@ROHVM1.BITNET>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <91165.101842RS0VRD@ROHVM1.BITNET> RS0VRD@ROHVM1.BITNET (Ross Druker) writes:
>I have what may be a trivial problem, but I haven't solved it yet.
>I'm using the Korn shell a script on an HP-UX system.  I would like
>to check for the existence of ANY data files, not a specific file.
>if test -r  *.data

This should work with sh or ksh:
FILES=`echo *.data`
if [ "*.data" = "$FILES" ]
  then :  # no match
else
  for i in $FILES
   do
  ... process them...
   done
fi

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us