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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Check for file with a particular extension in a particular directory Post 302903842 by clx on Friday 30th of May 2014 01:48:15 AM
Old 05-30-2014
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bhavesh Sharma
I read at some places about globs. Can globs be used to find out files with any extension in ksh. If yes, how?
What did you read about glob? Did you get the context? the above post also uses them.

Another way

Code:
ls  ${TCH_FILE_DIRECTORY}/*.tch >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo found || echo not found

 

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SUSPICIOUS-SOURCE(1)                                          General Commands Manual                                         SUSPICIOUS-SOURCE(1)

NAME
suspicious-source - search for files that are not the GPL's "preferred form of modification" SYNOPSIS
suspicious-source [options] DESCRIPTION
suspicious-source is a script that outputs a list of files which are not common source files. This should be run in the root of a source tree to find files which might not be the "preferred form of modification" that the GPL and other licenses require. The files inside version control system directories (like .bzr/ or CVS/) are not considered. OPTIONS
-h, --help Show this help message and exit. -v, --verbose Print more information. -d directory, --directory=directory Check the files in the specified directory instead of the current directory. -m mimetype, --mimetype=mimetype Add mimetype to list of white-listed MIME types. -e extension, --extension=extension Add extension to list of white-listed extensions. AUTHORS
suspicious-source and this manpage have been written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>. Both are released under the ISC license. DEBIAN Debian Utilities SUSPICIOUS-SOURCE(1)
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