[ale] Q: Bash: test for existence of any file matching a glob pattern.

[fletch at phydeaux.org (Fletch)]

Of course if you were using zsh then you could just use:

if [[ -z "$( print *.h(N) )" ]] ; then
  print no dot h files . . .
else
  frobnicate *.h
fi


The "(N)" suffix turns on nullglob for a single expansion.

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