[prog] bash script (Wolf Rising)

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Hi I'm not an expert and most certainly am a lurker but here goes.... 
putting the exclamation point before the 'p' seems to work

sed -n '/^-/!p' $file"



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> Would anyone happen to see the syntax error in this code snippet?
>
> #push information to a file for sed to read
> ls -l /$directory>  /tmp/file
>
> #create file variable
> file="/tmp/file"
>
> case $var in
>       1) echo "These are regular files:"
>          sed -n '/^-/p' $file
>              if [ "sed -n '/^!-/p' $file" ];
>                then
>                  echo "No items found which match your criteria."
>              fi
>          ;;
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> It's a little bash script that checks file types by the first character, I
> wanted to add an if clause but I
> seem to have an error [ "sed -n '/^!-/p' $file" ] as it skips over this an
> prints the echo statement
> whether the file type is found or not.
>
> Thanks!
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