Re: Suppress a "No such file” message when using the ls command

[Richard Taubo]

Okay, thanks! :-)

Richard Taubo

> On 30 Mar 2020, at 19:34, Reuti <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> Am 30.03.2020 um 19:28 schrieb Richard Taubo <address@hidden>:
>> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> Trying to get the last pdf file in a directory and suppress a “No such file” 
>> message when a pdf file does not exist.
>> This works in zsh:
>> my_last_file=$(/bin/ls -t *.pdf  | head -1) 2> /dev/null
>> 
>> The same command returns a “No such file or directory” in bash when now pdf 
>> files are found.
>> 
>> I get this to work though, but that will require more steps:
>> my_last_file=$(/bin/ls -t *.pdf  2> /dev/null)
> 
> Using:
> 
> $ shopt -s nullglob
> 
> will prevent that a plain "*.pdf" is returned in case no match is found when 
> applying the wildcard.
> 
> -- Reuti