I gess you could also avoid the expension with: if test -n "$(find . -maxdepth 1 -name "$NAME" -print -quit)"
2012/8/15 Steve Thompson smt@vgersoft.com:
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Craig White wrote:
the relevant snippet is...
NAME="*.mov" cd $IN if test -n "$(find . -maxdepth 1 -name $NAME -print -quit)"
and if there is one file in this directory - ie test.mov, this works fine
but if there are two (or more) files in this directory - test.mov, test2.mov
then I get an error... find: paths must precede expression
The substitution of $NAME is expanding the wild card, giving you a single -name with two arguments. You probably want something like:
NAME="\*.mov"Steve _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos