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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Checking the existance of multiple files Post 302462388 by vivek_damodaran on Thursday 14th of October 2010 06:00:05 AM
Old 10-14-2010
Checking the existance of multiple files

I am trying to execute the following command to check the existance of a file (which has a date timestamp on it). If there are more than one file, then also it should give me 'success' result.

Code:
if [ -e /path/filename1.* ]
then
        <do some work> 
else
        <no files>
fi

Since there are more than one file...the above command throws an error.

Can someone please help?

Thanks

Last edited by vivek_damodaran; 10-14-2010 at 08:03 AM..
 

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SYNOPSIS
mixed date_sunrise (int $timestamp, [int $format = SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING], [float $latitude = ini_get("date.default_latitude")], [float $longitude = ini_get("date.default_longitude")], [float $zenith = ini_get("date.sunrise_zenith")], [float $gmt_offset]) DESCRIPTION
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o $timestamp - The $timestamp of the day from which the sunrise time is taken. o $format - $format constants +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | constant | | | | | | | description | | | | | | example | | | | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------+ | SUNFUNCS_RET_STRING | | | | | | | returns the result as string | | | | | | 16:46 | | | | | SUNFUNCS_RET_DOUBLE | | | | | | | returns the result as float | | | | | | 16.78243132 | | | | |SUNFUNCS_RET_TIMESTAMP | | | | | | | returns the result as integer (timestamp) | | | | | | 1095034606 | | | | +-----------------------+-------------------------------------------+ o $latitude - Defaults to North, pass in a negative value for South. See also: date.default_latitude o $longitude - Defaults to East, pass in a negative value for West. See also: date.default_longitude o $zenith - Default: date.sunrise_zenith o $gmtoffset - Specified in hours. RETURN VALUES
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+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 5.1.0 | | | | | | | Now issues the E_STRICT and E_NOTICE time zone | | | errors. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ EXAMPLES
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