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

#!/bin/bash
files=$(ls /home/somedir/*.flac 2> /dev/null | wc -l)
if [ "$files" != "0" ]
then
echo "Some files exists."
else
echo "No files with that extension."
fi

Answer 2

The top solution (if [ -e *.flac ];) did not work for me, giving: [: too many arguments

if ls *.flac >/dev/null 2>&1; then it will work.

Answer 3

shopt -s nullglob
if [[ -n $(echo *.flac) ]]    # or [ -n "$(echo *.flac)" ]
then 
    echo true
fi