04-13-2009
Hi Souron
I'm new to unix and i have been tring few basic steps for the below problem.
I just wanted to check if the there are any file in the directory
i wrote the code as below..
if [ -f * ]
then
echo Files exist
fi
but throw up an error as
-bash: [-f: command not found
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