exists or similar command to work like grep on file system files

[Kenneth Brody]

On 2/11/2014 11:19 PM, James Flanagan wrote:
> Server: 	FreeBSD 9.2 Filepro:	5.7.0.4
>
> I am looking a way to have filepro verify whether a file exists using
> only a partial file name (like grep).  This will be used with photographs
> from all sorts of cameras so instead of trying to account for every
> possible camera filename structure, i would like to be able to supply
> filepro with 3-4 numbers and a directory and have filepro determine if a
> file with that number exists in a file name.  that will be accurate
> enough for what i need the code to do.
[...]
> [root at filepro a]# ls
> IMGP0997.JPG	IMGP0999.JPG	IMGP1001.JPG	IMGP1003.JPG
> IMGP0998.JPG	IMGP1000.JPG	IMGP1002.JPG	IMGP1004.JPG
>
> ::aa="0998": :exists("/tmp/a/*"{aa{"*") eq "1":msgbox aa<"exists":
[...]

As you see, EXISTS() needs a filename, not a wildcard mask.

Check out OPENDIR().

-- 
Kenneth Brody