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Originally Posted by Scrutinizer

@OP: By using quotes you are preventing glob expansion so you are testing for a file called *HUN* . And without the quotes it would only work if the asterisks expand to exactly one file. If there are more files, then the test expression will become invalid.

It works either ways i.e. '' or "".
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