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Old 03-20-2009
spirtle spirtle is offline
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The problem is that the -e test expects just one file name, so it breaks if your pattern matches several files. Do the test on just one file, i.e. the first element of $filetype:
Code:
if ( -e $filetype[1] ) then
        echo "FILES with $pattern EXISTS"
else
        echo "FILES with $pattern DOES NOT EXISTS"
endif