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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: bourne and korn shell incompatibilities
Message-ID: <10423@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 1 Feb 88 23:26:52 GMT
References: <674@pttesac.UUCP> <391@dplace.UUCP> <1450@quacky.mips.COM>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Keywords: sh ksh

In article <1450@quacky.mips.COM> dce@mips.COM (David Elliott) writes:
>The following will also work....
>
>	case "`echo *.c`" in
>		'*.c')
>			echo "no files"
>			;;
>		*)
>			echo "files found"
>			;;
>	esac

Actually, if you have exactly one file, called `*.c', this will
claim there are no files.  To fix this you could use

	case "`echo *.c`" in
		"*.c")
			if [ -f "*.c" ]; then
				echo files found
			else
				echo no files
			fi;;
		*)
			echo files found;;
	esac

although this seems like overkill, in general.

Thinking about a shell with built-in exception handling,
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