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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting quoting question Post 302273538 by aegis on Monday 5th of January 2009 04:21:16 AM
Old 01-05-2009
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?
 

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NAME

     createhomedir -- create and populate home directories on the local computer.

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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OPTIONS

     -s       creates home directories for server home paths only (default).

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     -a       creates home directories for users defined in all directory domains of the server's search path.

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	      creates home directories for users defined in a specific directory domain in the server's search path.

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FILES

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