From: mh AT mike DOT franken DOT de (Michael Hirmke)
Subject: Re: Potential 'test' bug
11 Jul 1998 02:24:38 -0700
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Hi,

[...]
>        I am not certain the command "test -f /temp/*" is valid,

No it is not - the shell expands '*' to all the available filenames,
before test gets them, so your command really looks like
    test -f /tmp/foo /tmp/bar ...

[...]
>        Perhaps another file operator is required to test if a directory
>        contains one or more files.

in bash for example:

test $( ls -l /temp/* 2>/dev/null | wc -l ) -gt 0

[...]

Bye.
Michael.
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