X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <496760EA.10008@byu.net> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 07:36:26 -0700 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081209 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist. References: <49674D3B.20008@byu.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Hongyi Zhao on 1/9/2009 6:38 AM: > But I cann't figure this out, see the following results on my box: > > $ echo [ -f *.cache-2 ] > [ -f *.cache-2 ] That means there aren't any *.cache-2 files in your directory. Next, try this: $ touch a.cache-2 b.cache-2 $ echo [ -f *.cache-2 ] [ -f a.cache-2 b.cache-2 ] See how you just gave 2 arguments (instead of the expected 1) to [ -f? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklnYOoACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCkNACgx8OENtoEVdq74p/xmNi+2xUY YogAn2P59SahElPzMaV6F4zMpBeod0MG =hW6u -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/