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ls not working as expected within ksh
Post 77005 by zazzybob on Saturday 2nd of July 2005 09:36:32 AM
07-02-2005
For a start, your slashes are the wrong way round, but I'll assume that's a typo 
Anyway, having
`ls /foo/bar/*.txt`
will result in a lot of "not found" errors. This is not the way to use command substitution.
my_variable=`ls /foo/bar/*.txt` will work fine.
In your script, just use
ls /foo/bar/*.txt
and it should work fine.
If you're still having problems, please post your entire script.
Cheers
ZB
Anyway, having
`ls /foo/bar/*.txt`
will result in a lot of "not found" errors. This is not the way to use command substitution.
my_variable=`ls /foo/bar/*.txt` will work fine.
In your script, just use
ls /foo/bar/*.txt
and it should work fine.
If you're still having problems, please post your entire script.
Cheers
ZB
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