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01-05-2009

aegis

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quoting question

hi guys, i have a question related to quoting but i am not sure how to formulate it...

lets say we want to simulate the following shell actions

Code:

cd ~/project-dir
ctags /home/work/folder1/*.sh  /home/work/folder2/*.sh  /home/work/folder3/*.sh

so i make the following script

buidtags.sh

Code:

directory="~/project-dir"
file_locations="/home/work/folder1/*.sh  /home/work/folder2/*.sh  /home/work/folder3/*.sh"

ctags_command=ctags "$file_locations"

(cd "$directory" && $ctags_command )

but it doesn't work...
i think the reason is that it skips file globbing, and considers *.sh to be a file, that (of course) can't be found! How can i make file globbing and double quotes coexist? in other words how can i make this example work?

thanks in advance for your time,
nicolas

PS: in quoting as a reference i use chap7 from "learning the bash shell 3rd edition" but i am relatively new to shell scripting.Is there any other good reference for bash?