Re: [Help-bash] The best way to get a file in a directory

[Dennis Williamson]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018, 4:31 PM Peng Yu <address@hidden wrote:

>
>> https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/62883
>>
>
> This involves find. Anything native to bash that can return an arbitrary
> file?
>
>> <https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/62883>
>>
> <https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/62883>
>>
> --
> Regards,
> Peng
>

# find the first file in a directory
shopt -s nullglob
for file in dir/*
do
    if [[ -f $file ]]    # skip subdirs
    then
        break
    fi
done

if [[ -n $file ]]
then
    echo "Found $file"
fi

If you tell us what you're really trying to do we may be able to offer
better suggestions.