On 28/11/2021 16:36, Marc Chantreux wrote:
* the ambiguity when $# is 1: there is no way to know if i have no match
or if a very bad person named its file \*no_way_this_glob_matches\*.
Agreed that that is annoying.
If your pattern includes literal characters, there is a complicated
workaround that you can apply directly in the pattern: use the pattern
*[n]o_way_this_glob_matches*
If you get back exactly '*[n]o_way_this_glob_matches*', that is because
the glob did not match anything. A file by that name would not be picked
up by the glob. If you get back anything else, it was found by the glob.
Otherwise, you would need to 'test -e' to double-check.
Cheers,
Harald van Dijk
