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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Re: Long command lines Post 21762 by Perderabo on Wednesday 22nd of May 2002 11:33:19 AM
Old 05-22-2002
But few versions of find have that -level 0 option.

I would do:
cd somedir
ls | grep \\.F\$ | wc -l
to get a count of the *.F files. Then just compare that number to zero.
 

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