The wildcard globbing can match none, one, or several files.
Perhaps you don't need the wildcard globbing at all? The following simply strips off the .txt and appends .vcf
Take a look at post #1 in this thread again. Using the above code won't allow the code to take the filenames:
in one directory and find the corresponding files:
in the other directory.
Using the code suggested in post #2 will have the if statement:
take the then branch if there is exactly one matching file and take the else branch (if there is one) if there are no matching files and if there is more than one matching file. But, of course, we weren't shown the then or else branches so we can't make an educated guess at whether or not matching multiple files is an issue that the code is prepared to handle.
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