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

This should work in any borne-like shell out there:

if [ "$(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | grep -i '.*\.flac$')" ]; then
    echo true
fi

This also works with the GNU find, but IDK if this is compatible with other implementations of find:

if [ "$(find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -iname \*.flac)" ]; then
    echo true
fi