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

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