Some really good suggestions but unfortunately no dice
On Aug 15, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Larry Martell wrote:
Run the script with -x to see what's happening. $NAME is probably getting expanded. You might have to set noglob.
---- set +o noglob (inside or outside script made no difference ---- On Aug 15, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
The substitution of $NAME is expanding the wild card, giving you a single -name with two arguments. You probably want something like:
NAME="*.mov"
----- Definitely agree that it's expanding the glob but this doesn't work ----- On Aug 15, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste wrote: (and Patrick Welch too)
I gess you could also avoid the expension with: if test -n "$(find . -maxdepth 1 -name "$NAME" -print -quit)"
---- thought this would be a winner but it seems to completely miss everything with the $NAME completely
Thanks
Craig