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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting shopt -s nullglob Post 302254645 by cfajohnson on Tuesday 4th of November 2008 10:34:57 PM
Old 11-04-2008
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Originally Posted by msb65
Hi cfajohnson,

- I appreciate the response. Could you please expand on your statement that shopt -s nullglob is not standard? What do you mean exactly?

It only works in bash.
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- Also, is the purpose of the code that you have written inside the for loop to eliminate the error message that occurs when one of the patterns is not matched?

Exactly. It acheives the same effect as shopt -s nullglob, but will work in all Bourne-type shells.
 

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