Check whether a certain file type/extension exists in directory [duplicate]

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 true;  fi  

Answer 1

#!/bin/bash  count=`ls -1 *.flac 2>/dev/null | wc -l` if [ $count != 0 ] then  echo true fi  

Answer 2

#/bin/bash  myarray=(`find ./ -maxdepth 1 -name "*.py"`) if [ ${#myarray[@]} -gt 0 ]; then      echo true  else      echo false fi