Some problem about file test

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,
I'm writing a part of script to test the files, here is what is looks like:
if [ -r /test/A*.TXT ]
then
do somthing
fi

This script runs well on HPUX. However, when I test it on Linux(redhat), it only works if there is only one file with name A*.TXT. If there's more than one files with this kind of name in that directory, the test will never pass.
Can anyone help me with this? Thanks a lot!

2

You cant check the readability of all files at one time, you need to do it one by one.

3

Please put code inside code tags.

With which shell? It wouldn't work in any Bourne-type shell.

for file in /test/A*.TXT
do
  if [ -r "$file" ]
  then
    : do something
  fi
done
4

This one works too, tested on gentoo, bash 3.1.16

for i in $( find /test -iname "A*.TXT" );
do
	if [ -r "${i}" ] ; then
		printf "Test OK\n"
	else
		printf "Test NG\n"
	fi
done
5

I'll bet you didn't test it in a directory where there's a matching filename containing a space.

6

oops!! ur correct cfajohnson,
never thought of spaces in a file name,
sorry abt that.

7

Thanks, your code is ok!

BTW, my original code really works on my HPUX :frowning:
The first line is #!/bin/sh, how can I check the exact version?

8

Are you sure it works when there are multiple matching files? I've never heard of a Bourne-type shell where that would work.

9

Yes, this part is taken from a script which has been running on our HPUX system for years. Now we are migrating the system to Linux, that's how we found this problem.