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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Checking the existence of a file before getting last modified Post 302394706 by LostInTheWoods on Friday 12th of February 2010 09:04:24 AM
Old 02-12-2010
Thanks, works a treat. I couldn't understand how it worked until I tried this on the command line:
Code:
echo status-*

and got the filenames of my three test files:
status-1 status-2 status-3

So echo can work a little like ls? I have learnt something today.
 

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NAME

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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