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