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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Tricky BASH quoting question Post 302790639 by wisecracker on Saturday 6th of April 2013 06:10:05 AM
Old 04-06-2013
The terminal IS interactive, so why not experiment with it first!

Do you mean something like this:-

This lists all the files in my "Others" folder, shown here as "Oth*"

Note the inverted commas ARE important!

Note "Health and safety.txt" has spaces in it...

Code:
Last login: Sat Apr  6 11:04:17 on ttys000
Barrys-MacBook-Pro:~ barrywalker$ text="/Users/barrywalker/Desktop/Oth*"
Barrys-MacBook-Pro:~ barrywalker$ ls $text
1-8504-140043.pdf		Atheism.txt~			KEVIN.TXT			PyAudio.py.txt			Tesco-Net-Dump.txt
8outputDTMF.pdf			Atheism1.txt			KEVIN1.TXT			Python14.readme			The_Day.txt
AMIGA.TXT			Atheist-Quotes.txt		Kung-Fu.txt			Python3.html			The_Day.txt~
AMIGA_Peek_Mem.txt		BT-20-05-2012.html		LXF_POEM.TXT			Python3_files			URLs.txt
AMINET_INDEX			BT-20-05-2012_files		Limerick.txt			RF_Attenuator.txt		Upside-Down.txt
ANSI_Codes.txt			BWBASIC.TXT			Locate_Demo.py.txt		RF_Attenuator.txt~		Useful_commands.txt
AQOTD.txt			Backwards-compatibility.TXT	MMU-INFO.TXT			RF_PROBE_CALIB.pdf		Useful_commands.txt~
AQOTD_hymn.txt			DE737HJ.txt			MYAUDIO.TXT			Republican_Scandals.txt		V3.3Builtins.txt
ATHEIST.TXT			DEVICES.TXT			Mac_Forum_Insult.txt		Republicans.txt			Vertex_Sp_Mic.pdf
ATHEIST.TXT~			DSC_0534.jpg			Maths_Fuctions.txt		Rhetoric.rtf			Victims_of_Christianity.txt
ATHEIST_DONE.TXT		DV2036EA.PDF			Mullard-ValveData-1951.pdf	Root.txt			Web-Address.txt
ATHEIST_DONE.TXT~		DataLogger.txt			Newspaper-bias.txt		Root.txt~			Web-Host-Ad.txt
Agostino_reply.txt		Discussion.txt			Nursery_Rhymes.txt		SETH.txt			amigados_manual.pdf
AppleScript_For_Beginners.pdf	E-UAE_Shortcut_Keys.txt		Ode_To_The_AMIGA.TXT		SETH2.txt			hexdump
Apple_Licence_Xcode.rtf		EVENTS.TXT			PCI.TXT				SUDO.TXT			my_monthly_fix.txt
Atheism-02-02-2013		Enter_UEFI.txt			PEEKMEM.BAS			Scope_Info.txt			python1.pdf
Atheism-02-02-2013~		Foward_Compatibility_1.txt	PYGAME.TXT			Scope_Info.txt~			seth1.txt
Atheism-03-02-2013		God_Rap.txt			Park-Resorts-HQ.txt		Skype.pdf			seth4.txt
Atheism-03-02-2013~		HW.TXT				Patents.txt			Store				tkinter.pdf
Atheism.txt			Health and safety.txt		Pauls-number.txt		Tams_Work.txt			water.txt
Barrys-MacBook-Pro:~ barrywalker$

EDIT:

Code:
Last login: Sat Apr  6 12:02:55 on ttys000
Barrys-MacBook-Pro:~ barrywalker$ textone="/Users/barrywalker/"
Barrys-MacBook-Pro:~ barrywalker$ texttwo="Desk*/"
Barrys-MacBook-Pro:~ barrywalker$ ls $textone$texttwo
AppleScript Language	Code			Others
Barrys-MacBook-Pro:~ barrywalker$ textthree="*"
Barrys-MacBook-Pro:~ barrywalker$ ls $textone$texttwo$textthree
/Users/barrywalker/Desktop/AppleScript Language

/Users/barrywalker/Desktop/Code:
1KHz_Function_Generator_OSX.py		MCG2x.py
1KHz_Function_Generator_OSX.py~		MCG3x.py
1KHz_Sine_Generator_OSX.py		MPO.b
1KHz_Sine_Generator_OSX.py~		MPO2x.py
1KHz_Sine_Wave.py			MPO3x.py
1KHz_Sine_Wave.py~			MagicEye1.py
4BitVerticalBargraph2x.py		MagicEye3x.py
4BitVerticalBargraph3x.py		MagicEye_AMIGA.py
4BitVerticalBargraph3x_1.py		MagicEye_AMIGA.py~
8bitaccess.py				Magic_Eye.py
8bitaccess.py~				Max_Freq.py
AC2DC.py				Max_Freq.py~
AC2DC_OSX.py				Metronome2x.py
AC2DC_OSX.py~				Metronome3x.py

Last edited by wisecracker; 04-06-2013 at 08:09 AM.. Reason: Adding wildcards in drawers and files!
 

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