Chris F.A. Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Dec 2009, Marc Herbert wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know a more elegant way to check for file existence?
>> Something that does not fork a subshell. And is also more readable
>> maybe. And is obviously not much longer.
>>
>> empty_dir()
>> {
>> test "x$(echo $1/*$2)" = "x$1"'/*'"$2"
>> }
>>
>>
>> Warning: I find neither "noglob" nor "ls" elegant, sorry!
>
> is_file()
> {
> for f
> do
> [ -f "$f" ] && return
> done
> return 1
> }
>
> is_file /path/to/dir/* || echo empty
This fails if the directory contains a file called "*".
