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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Object matching with Wildcards Post 302659941 by Scrutinizer on Thursday 21st of June 2012 04:43:11 PM
Old 06-21-2012
Your welcome! If you want to test if any file with that pattern is present you could try something like this, which was written by cfajohnson:
Code:
file_exists()
{
  for _file; do
    [ -f "$_file" ] && return
  done
  return 1
}

Code:
$ if file_exists abc??????; then echo hello; fi
hello
$

 

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GAPPLETVIEWER(1)                                                        GNU                                                       GAPPLETVIEWER(1)

NAME

       gappletviewer - Load and runs an applet

SYNOPSIS

       appletviewer [OPTION]... URL...

       appletviewer [OPTION]... -code CODE

       appletviewer [OPTION]... -plugin INPUT,OUTPUT

DESCRIPTION

       The appletviewer tool loads and runs an applet.

       Use the first form to test applets specified by tag.  The URL should resolve to an HTML document from which the appletviewer will extract
       applet tags.  The APPLET, EMBED and OBJECT tags are supported.  If a given document contains multiple applet tags, all the applets will be
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       Use the second form to test an applet in development.  This form allows applet tag attributes to be supplied on the command line.  Only one
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       gcjwebplugin uses the third form to communicate with the appletviewer through named pipes.

OPTIONS

       URL OPTIONS

       -debug
           This option is not yet implemented but is provided for compatibility.

       -encoding CHARSET
           Use this option to specify an alternate character encoding for the specified HTML page.

       APPLET TAG OPTIONS

       -code CODE
           Use the -code option to specify the value of the applet tag CODE attribute.

       -codebase CODEBASE
           Use the -codebase option to specify the value of the applet tag CODEBASE attribute.

       -archive ARCHIVE
           Use the -archive option to specify the value of the applet tag ARCHIVE attribute.

       -width WIDTH
           Use the -width option to specify the value of the applet tag WIDTH attribute.

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       -param NAME,VALUE
           Use the -param option to specify values for the NAME and VALUE attributes of an applet PARAM tag.

       PLUGIN OPTION

       -plugin INPUT,OUTPUT
           gcjwebplugin uses the -plugin option to specify the named pipe the appletviewer should use for receiving commands (INPUT) and the one
           it should use for sending commands to gcjwebplugin (OUTPUT).

       DEBUGGING OPTION

       -verbose
           Use the -verbose option to have the appletviewer print debugging messages.

       STANDARD OPTIONS

       -help
           Use the -help option to have the appletviewer print a usage message, then exit.

       -version
           Use the -version option to have the appletviewer print its version, then exit.

       -JOPTION
           Use the -J option to pass OPTION to the virtual machine that will run the appletviewer.  Unlike other options, there must not be a
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