16 Aug
2012
16 Aug
'12
6:48 p.m.
On Aug 15, 2012, at 5:11 PM, fred smith wrote:
how about something (seemingly simple) like this:
find out how many there are:
count=`ls * | grep -c .MOV$`
then diagnose the result:
if [ $count -ge 1 ] then do your stuff here else echo oops. nothing to do! fi
of course, there are pitfalls... we're asuming that there are only FILES that would match the pattern ".MOV", no directories.
---- very effective for my purposes, thanks.
Craig