[NTLUG:Discuss] How to get mv to not report when there are no files?

[Fred James]

Leroy Tennison wrote:

(omissions for brevity)

>if [ -f /home/johnc/* ]; then ...
>
>but fortunately I tested before I did.  The best I could come up with 
>quickly was
>
>for i in /home/johnc/*; do if [ -f "$i" ] mv ...
>
>which leads to the question "Is there no wildcard file existence test in 
>bash?"
>  
>
Leroy Tennision
...not sure this is answering your question...in the bit of script 
below, the first test looks at the current working directory in which 
are found the script and a directory called 'none' which contains 
nothing; the second test is used to report on files only (avoiding 
directories); the third test looks inside the directory called 
'none'...and from running this script, one might surmise that:
(1) "if test -f" (first test) is all that is needed to see if there are 
any regular files in the current working directory
(2) "if test -f ./none" (third test) (or similar form) is all that is 
needed to see if there are any regular files in some other directory
Hope this helps - is that what you were asking?
Regards
Fred James

#! /bin/bash
#
if test -f
then
        pwd
        for i in `ls`
        do
                if test -f $i
                then
                        echo $i
                fi
        done
else
        echo "None here"
fi
echo "`pwd`/none"
if test -f ./none
then
        for i in `ls ./none/*`
        do
                echo $i
        done
else
        echo "None here"
fi
exit