In a shell script.. how do I test if any *.php exist?
 

if test -e *.php; is invalid so how do you do that?

my techs arent around, but if you mean search for .php the comman is locate *.php

not to search.. to check if any exists and branch in the script based on it.

Maybe something like...

if [ "`ls *.php`X" = "X" ]; then
# no *.php
fi

That may print out an error to stderr if there's no files. Not sure.

I wouldn't use 'locate' since that checks the locate database (which is only rebuilt periodically) rather than looking at actual (current) directory entries.

if [ -f *.php ]; then echo "PHP files present"; fi

Mind you, the spaces need to be there.
Also, you could do:

if [ ! -f *.php ]; then echo "no PHP files present"; fi

Let me guess......you got hacked and you have cheap hosting
and the host thinks the problem is you.

:1orglaugh


Just a WILD guess here.

No.. setting up a script to do an auto update of data files and need to do a cleanup.

:1orglaugh what dick you are :1orglaugh

sounds like you just need this ... http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Command-.../dp/047025128X

Might also need to quote "*.php"