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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to send a string to function containing wild card? Post 302411214 by vino on Thursday 8th of April 2010 02:13:34 AM
Old 04-08-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by paragkalra
Hey All,

I am trying to send a string as an input parameter to a function which contains a wild card character - *

However the function is taking it as:

PS: The directory - '/path/to/my/dir/' has 3 files:
file1.out,
file2.out,
file3.out

However I want to disable this wild card behaviour i.e to say I want to literally send '/path/to/my/dir/file*.out' as a string without any wild card expansion.
Look into the man bash. There is a flag called noglob for set. Use as
Code:
set -o noglob

just before you make the call.
 

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