Re: [LUG] Bash question

[John Palmer <johnp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Gemma Peter wrote:

> cd $DIRECTORY
> for I in *.eps;
> do
>    #what you want to do to each file
>    #for example print its name
>    echo "$I";
> done;

I too would have done it that way, rather than use an if clause.
If you dislike the error-message
             *.eps: No such file or directory
that will come up when there are no files to process,
use 
             2>/dev/null

Best wishes
John

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