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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash error when using quote Post 302929309 by junior-helper on Friday 19th of December 2014 10:52:14 AM
Old 12-19-2014
Quote:
Code:
ls "/usr/NX/var/log/*.log"

Obviously, the wildcard/star * won't expand within quotes...

You could try
Code:
ls "/usr/NX/var/log/"*.log

also try
Code:
ls "/dir/with/s p a c e s/log"*.log # note this should list the files, you can't simply substitute ls with cp.

This should work if the source directory and/or source files have no space in the name:
Code:
CMD="cp -v    \"/$MY_DIR_5_2/\"*.log  \"$MY_ROOT_DIR/$MY_DIR_5_2\" "

It should work too if the source directory has spaces in the path, but you keep the quotes around it.

If the source directory and/or source files have space in the name, try this (untested)
Code:
CMD="ls \"/dir/with/s p a c e s/log\"*.log | while read file; do cp -v \"$file\" \"$MY_ROOT_DIR/$MY_DIR_5_2\"; done "

Hope this helps.
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