05-30-2007
If you get back "AWP.????????.IP" then nothing matched the expression.
The way general expressions work in the shell is if there are file matches those that match are returned, else the expression.
Can you do "ls -l" for us to see what you are seeing?
It might be a case sensitivity type thing, note, windows file systems are case-insensitive, UNIX ones are normally case-sensitive.
You might need to try "awp.????????.ip" or some variation.
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NAME
test - condition command
SYNOPSIS
test expr
DESCRIPTION
test evaluates the expression expr, and if its value is true then returns zero exit status; otherwise, a non zero exit status is returned.
test returns a non zero exit if there are no arguments.
The following primitives are used to construct expr.
-r file true if the file exists and is readable.
-w file true if the file exists and is writable.
-f file true if the file exists and is not a directory.
-d file true if the file exists and is a directory.
-s file true if the file exists and has a size greater than zero.
-t [ fildes ]
true if the open file whose file descriptor number is fildes (1 by default) is associated with a terminal device.
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-n s1 true if the length of the string s1 is nonzero.
s1 = s2 true if the strings s1 and s2 are equal.
s1 != s2 true if the strings s1 and s2 are not equal.
s1 true if s1 is not the null string.
n1 -eq n2
true if the integers n1 and n2 are algebraically equal. Any of the comparisons -ne, -gt, -ge, -lt, or -le may be used in place of
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-o binary or operator
( expr )
parentheses for grouping.
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are meaningful to the Shell and must be escaped.
SEE ALSO
sh(1), find(1)
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