Delete a specific type of files when they exist.

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 11:55:46AM +0800, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I want to delete the all of the cache-2 files under a directory, so I
>use the following line to do this:
>
>if [ -f *.cache-2 ] rm *.cache-2
>
>But it seems that this -f parameter in the _if_ command will not work
>with wildcard, i.e., the  _[ -f *.cache-2 ]_ isn't a valid arg.  Any
>hints on this issue? 

Why not just

  rm -f *.cache-2

?

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