Check whether a certain file type/extension exists in directory

Question

How would you go about telling whether files of a specific extension are present in a directory, with bash?

Something like

if [ -e *.flac ]; then 
echo t         


        

Answer 1

You can use -f to check whether files of a specific type exist:

#!/bin/bash

if [ -f *.flac ] ; then
   echo true
fi