Shell Scripting: Checking for multiple files by pattern

[audax321]

I have a problem with my shell script for nautilus. I need to have it check and see if *.par2 files exist in the current directory. I can do this with:


if [ -f *.par2 ]


if there is only 1 par2 file in the current directory, but in some cases there are more and in those cases the above if statement return false. Is there a way to get the if statement to return true no matter how many *.par2 files there are and also a way to find out how many *.par2 files there are?

Thanks :)

[audax321]

I think I found another way to do it. I got it to output the list of par2 files, but now I need to add them all together and insert spaces where appropriate to it is a list as follows:

file1.par2 file2.par2 file3.par2 and so on... Here is my code:

for i in *.par2
do
if [ -f "$i" ]; then
PAR2_LIST="$PAR2_LIST" + " " + "$i"
fi
done

I'm not sure how to add those strings together.... :-|

[cwaldbieser]

What about something like:


rval=false
for file in *.par2; do
if [ -f "$file" ]; then
rval=true
break
fi
done
#rval is either true or false at this point.

[audax321]

Thanks, that worked, but then I found out it didn't because the par2 program refuses to check more than 1 par during any one run... what a waste of time....

Oh well, I guess I'll just have to run the pars individually. I was hoping I could get it to check all the pars in one run, but I guess thats not going to happen. :mad:

[LordHunter317]

You could just say:for i in *.par ; do par "$i" ; done to run a par command per file.