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# 8  
Old 09-28-2010
Above the shell globbing, try

Code:
set +o noglob

# 9  
Old 09-28-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by Corona688
Above the shell globbing, try

Code:
set +o noglob

I'm afraid I don't know what the shell globbing is, but I tried it in the script and in the terminal prior to running the script, and I have the same problem.
# 10  
Old 09-28-2010
The noglob is a bash-specific shell option that's fairly self-explanatory. I thought maybe it'd gotten turned on somehow.

In the script,

Code:
echo ~/data/${1}*

...then copy-paste the resulting output into your shell to see if it expands there. If it doesn't there's a subtle typo.
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# 11  
Old 09-28-2010
Try this
bash code:
  1. #! /bin/bash
  2. filelist=${1}*
  3. cd ~/data
  4. ~/./convertFile $filelist ~/temp/output
# 12  
Old 09-28-2010
Okay, I feel stupid. It turns out that it was expanding, but there was actually a file called "aaaa*" in the directory, which meant that the first record in the expansion was "aaaa*", and this in turn made it look like all convertfile was getting was the unexpanded string. Thanks so much for your help!
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