For loop - coping with an asterisk item

PaulUrwin · #1 (**permalink**) 09-06-2007

How do you get a for loop to cope with one of the items being an asterisk?

for myResult in `echo "*"`
do
echo "$myResult"
done

The asterisk is returning a file listing in the PWD.

The same result can be got from:

for myResult in "*"
do
echo "$myResult"
done

How to I combat this?

Cheers.

vino · #2 (**permalink**) 09-07-2007

Probably, you need to disable pathname expansion. Use set -f. Something like

Code:

(set -f; for file in `echo "*"`; do echo $file; done; )

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