Re: Suppress a "No such file” message when using the ls command

[Reuti]

Hi,

> Am 30.03.2020 um 19:28 schrieb Richard Taubo <address@hidden>:
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Trying to get the last pdf file in a directory and suppress a “No such file” 
> message when a pdf file does not exist.
> This works in zsh:
> my_last_file=$(/bin/ls -t *.pdf  | head -1) 2> /dev/null
> 
> The same command returns a “No such file or directory” in bash when now pdf 
> files are found.
> 
> I get this to work though, but that will require more steps:
> my_last_file=$(/bin/ls -t *.pdf  2> /dev/null)

Using:

$ shopt -s nullglob

will prevent that a plain "*.pdf" is returned in case no match is found when 
applying the wildcard.

-- Reuti