On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 1:46 PM, Linda Walsh <[email protected]> wrote:
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>
> Chris Down wrote:
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>> Linda Walsh writes:
>>
>>> So all I need do is test the first entry:
>>>
>>> local -a entries=("$1"/*)
>>> [[ ${entries[0]} == $1/* ]] && return 0
>>>
>>> --- the $1 doesn't need quotes in [[]] and '*' won't expand or
>>> am missing something? Thanks for the tip Pierre, I often
>>> don't see forests because of all the trees...
>>>
>>
>> The RHS of [[ has pattern matching applied on unquoted parts, so yes,
>> you probably want quotes around $1.
>>
> ----
> Pattern matching? Why doesn't '*' match anything then?
>
> Do you mean pathname expansion? or are you thinking of the =~
> operator? I.e. where would it match a pattern? It can't match
> in the current directory, since it just failed a pathname
> expansion in the line before. But for a regex, I thought you
> needed '=~' ??
>
> * matches everything and nothing, so you need to quote the whole thing
$ [[ foo == * ]] && echo true
true
your test will also fail if there is one file named "*" it' better to just
[[ -e ${entries[0]} ]]
