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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting test if a filename exists with specified string (ksh) Post 302103655 by Perderabo on Friday 19th of January 2007 10:41:33 PM
Old 01-19-2007
The thing is that *$var could match mutliple items and perhaps only one of them is file. So a secure solution would be to loop through them all to see if *$var matches a file or not. If you are very sure that *$var will match 1 or 0 files then you could use the single bracket if statement:
if [ -f *$var ] ; then echo match found ; fi
But this will do various things if *$var matches 2 or more items.
 

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glookbib

LOOKBIB(1)						      General Commands Manual							LOOKBIB(1)

NAME

       lookbib - search bibliographic databases

SYNOPSIS

       lookbib [ -v ] [ -istring ] [ -tn ] filename...

DESCRIPTION

       lookbib	prints a prompt on the standard error (unless the standard input is not a terminal), reads from the standard input a line contain-
       ing a set of keywords, searches the bibliographic databases filename... for references containing those	keywords,  prints  any	references
       found  on  the  standard  output,  and repeats this process until the end of input.  For each database filename to be searched, if an index
       filename.i created by indxbib(1) exists, then it will be searched instead; each index can cover multiple databases.

OPTIONS

       It is possible to have whitespace between a command line option and its parameter.

       -v     Print the version number.

       -istring
	      When searching files for which no index exists, ignore the contents of fields whose names are in string.

       -tn    Only require the first n characters of keys to be given.	Initially n is 6.

FILES

       filename.i  Index files.

SEE ALSO

       refer(1), lkbib(1), indxbib(1)

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