test for filetype with no error o/p

[pickarooney]

I'm trying to test for the existence of a file type and perform an action on all files of that type, but don't want to get an error output if the filetype doesn't exist.

Both snippets below throw up errors depending on whether or not the filetype exists.


if [ -f *.txt ]
then
rm *.txt
fi

or

for file in *.txt
do
rm $file
done

[po0f]

pickarooney,

`rm -f`.

[pickarooney]

True, that works for the example I gave. However, if I expand the if/for loops to perform any other actions besides rm I still get errors. They're not serious errors, as the script still works, it's just a bit messy.

[po0f]

pickarooney,

if [ -f *.txt ]; then
<some_command> 2>/dev/null
<some_other_command> 2>/dev/null
fi

[pickarooney]

Yeah, that'll work. Thanks :)