Re: [leafnode-list] Re: Fetchnews and Shell Script

[jrd@xxxxxxxxxxxx (John R. Dennison)]

Opps.

Sorry, its force of habit to think of /bin/sh as a Bourne work-alike shell,
which is generally a fairly safe bet.  This works in bash, and I have used
like constructs in Sys-V release platforms in the past.  



							John
In previous mail, Stefan Troeger spouted...
> 
> 
> Depending on the shell you're using this may work or not. It does
> fine in zsh, but in bash it will only work if there are less then
> two files that match *:
> 
> [sttr]/home/sttr/1> touch foo bar com
> [sttr]/home/sttr/1> if [ -f * ]; then echo; fi
> [: too many arguments
> 
> Ciao,
> 	Stefan


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