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Checking for presence of any files

Is there code in Cshell scripting to check for the presence of any files in the current directory (and only the current directory)? I tried:

if (-r *) then ...

but Cshell doesn't like that.

Thanks,

Paul Hudgens
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CHECK-BINARY-FILES(1)						   User Commands					     CHECK-BINARY-FILES(1)

NAME
check-binary-files - check if the archive doesn't contain a third party binaries (JARs) SYNOPSIS
check-binary-files -f instructions_file [-a archive_file] OPTIONS
-a Archive file on which actions will be performed, as opposed to current directory -f The instructions file to check against. -a Archive file on which actions will be performed, as opposed to current directory -f The instructions file to check against. EXAMPLES
In %prep for the rpm spec, one would have: check-binary-files -f instructions -a abc-1-clean.tar.gz This ensures that the tarball is clean, and has nothing extra, or missing. The instruction file was generated using clean-binary-file(1). SEE ALSO
Regular Manual Pages clean-binary-files(1), create-jar-links(1), jpackage-utils(7) Documentation Further reading should be found in clean-binary-files.txt located in your standard documentation directory. Original mail is here: https://www.zarb.org/pipermail/jpackage-discuss/2005-November/009158.html AUTHOR
Written by Deepak Bhole REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs using JPackage Bugzilla (http://www.jpackage.org/bugzilla/) check-binary-files (jpackage-utils) 1.7.5 February 2009 CHECK-BINARY-FILES(1)