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   Alan Ianson to Deon George   
   My bash script   
   04 Aug 19 08:09:50   
   
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   >Yeah, the reason it would fail, is the shell will expand it. IE: If you have 2   
   > TIC's "a.tic", "b.tic", the command expands to:   
      
   > : if [ -f fido/inbound/a.tic fido/inbound/b.tic ]; then   
      
   > Which is a syntax error. There are probably many ways to do this, the way I   
   > would do it is:   
      
   OK, I'll need to change that.   
      
   > In my above example, you could have   
      
   > for i in fido/inbound/*.tic fido/inbound/*.TIC; do   
      
   > And then have another test for the uppercase *.TIC, that "continues".   
      
   Thanks for the suggestions, I'll give that a try.. :)   
      
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