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Old 09-19-2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lumdev View Post
I can make an if statement first "if [ -f *.txt ] ...", but there must be a better solution.
Check for the actual file in the loop

Code:
  for file in *.txt
  do
     if test -f $file
     then
        read file ...
     fi
  done