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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash shell expansion help Post 302955589 by cokedude on Saturday 19th of September 2015 04:56:33 AM
Old 09-19-2015
Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Cragun
The
Code:
for  filename in /shell_expansion/*.txt

is looking for files with names ending with .txt in the directory /shell_expansion/; not for files ending with that string in the current directory.

If you're looking for files in a subdirectory of your current working directory, maybe you wanted something more like:
Code:
for  filename in ./shell_expansion/*.txt

(note the added leading period) or just remove the leading slash from the pathname:
Code:
for  filename in shell_expansion/*.txt

/shell_expansion/ is my current directory.

I tried it both ways with no luck. It still won't expand the *.

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


]$ ./test_script.sh
shell_expansion/*.txt
shell_expansion/*.txt
shell_expansion/*.txt
shell_expansion/*.txt

 

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SYNOPSIS
array get_included_files (void ) DESCRIPTION
Gets the names of all files that have been included using include(3), include_once(3), require(3) or require_once(3). RETURN VALUES
Returns an array of the names of all files. The script originally called is considered an "included file," so it will be listed together with the files referenced by include(3) and family. Files that are included or required multiple times only show up once in the returned array. EXAMPLES
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