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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash shell expansion help Post 302955503 by cokedude on Thursday 17th of September 2015 10:13:14 PM
Old 09-17-2015
Bash shell expansion help
This is what I have in my directory.

Code:
$ ls
test1.txt  test2.txt  test3.txt  test4.txt  test5.txt  test_script.sh

This is what my shellscript looks like.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

for  filename in /shell_expansion/*.txt; do
           for ((i=0; i<=3; i++)); do
               echo "$filename"
           done
done

This is what happens when I run my shellscript.

Code:
./test_script.sh
/shell_expansion/*.txt
/shell_expansion/*.txt
/shell_expansion/*.txt
/shell_expansion/*.txt

I don't understand why shell expansion isn't happening on the *. Why am I getting /shell_expansion/*.txt instead of /shell_expansion/test1.txt and so on?
 

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