On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 06:58:18PM -0700, Mark Zimmerman wrote: > shopt -s nullglob > SOME=FALSE > MATCH=*.jpg > for f in $MATCH; do SOME=TRUE; break; done > > I tried [ -z $MATCH ] also but it always fails even though echo $MATCH > prints an empty string. You probably need to double-quote "$MATCH" like so. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]