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|    Alan Ianson to Deon George    |
|    My bash script    |
|    04 Aug 19 08:09:50    |
      MSGID: 1:153/757.0 ab3fa1af       REPLY: 26.fdn_tuxpower@3:633/509 21ab77d0       TZUTC: -0700       CHARSET: LATIN-1       >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.. :)              --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4        * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 57/0 153/250 154/10 203/0 220/70 221/0 226/17       SEEN-BY: 227/114 229/354 426 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 250/3 267/800       SEEN-BY: 280/464 5003 310/31 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/0 1 100 340 772/0 1 500 2452/250       PATH: 153/757 250 770/1 280/464 229/426           |
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