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

I tried this:

if [ -f *.html ]; then
    echo "html files exist"
else
    echo "html files dont exist"
fi

I used this piece of code without any problem for other files, but for html files I received an error:

[: too many arguments

I then tried @JeremyWeir's count solution, which worked for me.

Keep in mind you'll have to reset the count if you're doing this in a loop:

count=$((0))