I’m glad to hear that you were able to solve your issue. And thanks for sharing your solution with us!

hi Gabriel.,
thanks for the suggestion. after some search I came to know that we can’t use wild cards in if conditions to check similar files existence.
I got an alternate solution using ls command. below is how it works

ls -l /home/user/file_*
res=$?

if [ $res =0 ]
then
echo “all files exists”
else
echo “all files not exists”
fi

Please check the accepted answer in this Stackoverflow post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19354024/using-wildcards-in-bash-if-statement and let me know if it solves your issue.

Hi Gabriel.,

Tested this and came to know that the problem is not with if condition, it is with wild cards., Below is my scenario

i have 3 files and one directory. Those 3 files are named as file_name1, file_name2, file_name3 and the directory name is logs.

for checking those 3 files and directory existence, i write a if condition like below.

if [[ -f /home/user/file_* && -d /home/user/logs ]]

while executing the above, IF condition is break at first condition, because it doesn’t find the file “/home/user/file_*”.

How can i use a wild card in if condition

hi Gabriel,
Thanks for the quick reply. coming to my scenario.,

i,’m using BASH shell. In a shell script I need to check the file and directory exists or not. if both are available then they should be deleted.

while using the above if condition(I mentioned) my script was stopped after checking first condition(here file existence) in if condion. while debugging (with set -x) i got to know that it was not checking the directory existence.

I will apply your fix and post my output.