why is this script failing?

Mel fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net
Mon Jul 14 20:34:15 UTC 2008


On Monday 14 July 2008 22:12:47 Gary Kline wrote:
> 	people,
>
> 	for reasons i don't understand completely, i wind up with
> 	*wav* files in my /tmp/kde-kline/* directory. plus othr misc junk
> 	files.
>
> 	why is this script not finding them?
>
>
> wav=/tmp/kde-kline/\*wav\*
>
> if [ -s $wav ]

Hint: this works, if there's only 1 wav file.
The way to do it:
if test ! -z "$wav"; then
	for f in $wav; do
		rm $f
	done
else
	echo "No wav files"
fi

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.


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