X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 00:42:21 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Delete a specific type of files when they exist. Message-ID: <20090109054221.GA28337@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 11:55:46AM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote: >Hi all, > >I want to delete the all of the cache-2 files under a directory, so I >use the following line to do this: > >if [ -f *.cache-2 ] rm *.cache-2 > >But it seems that this -f parameter in the _if_ command will not work >with wildcard, i.e., the _[ -f *.cache-2 ]_ isn't a valid arg. Any >hints on this issue? Why not just rm -f *.cache-2 ? -- 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/