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

bash only:

any_with_ext () ( 
    ext="$1"
    any=false
    shopt -s nullglob
    for f in *."$ext"; do
        any=true
        break
    done
    echo $any 
)

if $( any_with_ext flac ); then
    echo "have some flac"
else 
    echo "dir is flac-free"
fi

I use parentheses instead of braces to ensure a subshell is used (don't want to clobber your current nullglob setting).