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spydoor · Apr 19th, 2005, 4:16 PM

Here's a nasty solution.... There must be much better ways

count the number of files that match *.core... ignore 'No match'...
(to be correct you would also have to ignore other find error msgs like Permission denied.....)

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if(`find $HOME/*.core |& grep -v 'No match' | wc -l`) then
    echo found some
  else
    echo didn\'t find any
endif

Apr 19th, 2005, 4:16 PM	#7
spydoor Programmer Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 64 Rep Power: 4	Here's a nasty solution.... There must be much better ways count the number of files that match .core... ignore 'No match'... (to be correct you would also have to ignore other find error msgs like Permission denied.....) (Toggle Plain Text) if(`find $HOME/.core \|& grep -v 'No match' \| wc -l`) then echo found some else echo didn\'t find any endif if(`find $HOME/*.core \|& grep -v 'No match' \| wc -l`) then echo found some else echo didn\'t find any endif