From: Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com, hongyi.zhao@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist.
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49674D3B.20008@byu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <rfidm4hfs5p9h6s40obf5s083onsau7j26@4ax.com>
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According to Hongyi Zhao on 1/8/2009 8:55 PM:
> if [ -f *.cache-2 ] rm *.cache-2
>
> But it seems that this -f parameter in the _if_ command will not work
> with wildcard, i.e., the _[ -f *.cache-2 ]_ isn't a valid arg. Any
> hints on this issue?
Not cygwin specific. Your problem is that using a glob can expand to more
than one argument, whereas "[ -f ... ]" expects exactly one argument in
place of ...; using echo will show you where you went wrong:
echo [ -f *.cache-2 ]
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 13:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 4:20 Hongyi Zhao
2009-01-09 5:42 ` Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
2009-01-09 7:34 ` Hongyi Zhao
2009-01-09 9:31 ` Christopher Faylor
2009-01-09 9:41 ` Hongyi Zhao
2009-01-09 14:18 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2009-01-09 14:31 ` Hongyi Zhao
2009-01-09 15:18 ` Eric Blake
2009-01-10 11:59 ` Hongyi Zhao
2009-01-10 18:36 ` Eric Blake
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