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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

     pam_chroot -- Chroot PAM module

SYNOPSIS

     [service-name] module-type control-flag pam_chroot [arguments]

DESCRIPTION

     The chroot service module for PAM chroots users into either a predetermined directory or one derived from their home directory.  If a user's
     home directory as specified in the passwd structure returned by getpwnam(3) contains the string ``/./'', the portion of the directory name to
     the left of that string is used as the chroot directory, and the portion to the right will be the current working directory inside the chroot
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