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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compare the output of find command Post 302879713 by jim mcnamara on Saturday 14th of December 2013 06:20:09 AM
Old 12-14-2013
Code:
a=$(find . -name '*.lis')
if [ ! -z "$a" ] ; then  
 for fname in $a    # have some files
  do
  echo $fname
 done
else
  echo 'no files found'
fi

Start with that. Without seeing your code, make sure any [ or ] character (if condition ) is surrounded by spaces. This will work in /bin/sh the POSIX shell. More Questions? please post your code - this was a guess.
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zip_source_file

ZIP_SOURCE_FILE(3)					     Library Functions Manual						ZIP_SOURCE_FILE(3)

NAME

       zip_source_file - create data source from a file

LIBRARY

       libzip (-lzip)

SYNOPSIS

       struct zip_source * zip_source_file(struct zip *archive, const char *fname); "zip_uint64_t start" "zip_int64_t len"

DESCRIPTION

       The  function zip_source_file creates a zip source from a file.	zip_source_file opens fname and reads len bytes from offset start from it.
       If len is 0 or -1, the whole file (starting from start ) is used.

       The fie is opened and read when the data from the source is used, usually by zip_close.

RETURN VALUES

       Upon successful completion, the created source is returned.  Otherwise, NULL is returned and the error code in archive is set  to  indicate
       the error.

ERRORS

       zip_source_file fails if:

	      [ZIP_ER_INVAL]
		  fname, start, or len are invalid.

	      [ZIP_ER_MEMORY]
		  Required memory could not be allocated.

	      [ZIP_ER_OPEN]
		  Opening fname failed.

SEE ALSO

       libzip(3),    zip_add(3),    zip_replace(3),   zip_source_buffer(3),   zip_source_filep(3),   zip_source_free(3),   zip_source_function(3),
       zip_source_zip(3)

AUTHORS

       Dieter Baron <dillo@giga.or.at> and Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>

NiH								  August 1, 2008						ZIP_SOURCE_FILE(3)
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