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04-04-2007

rkshukla14 rkshukla14 is offline

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Escaping '*' in Bash

I have the following situation

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export DirectoryName=/tmp/xyz

if [ -d $DirectoryName ] ; then

some_new_env=$DirectoryName"/*"
=======================

I tried all the ways of escaping the '*', but still the shell seems to expand the '*' character. I want some_new_env to contain "/tmp/xyz/*"

Any ideas?

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