Here is a simple script. It writes the current time to specific files in a directory.
The arguments are the names of the files to write the date to (without path nor extension).
The command
will write the current time to I'd like to allow wildcards in the arguments.
But the command
will try to write the current time to files in /var/lib/ named after files in /root/a* plus the extension .dat.
To achieve my goal, I'd need globbing to be disabled in
but enabled in
How's that doable?
If you assume that /var/lib/a*.dat will expand to something like /var/lib/ab.dat /var/lib/ac.dat, your command line will become date >> /var/lib/ab.dat /var/lib/ac.dat and will fail. Only the first word after >> will be considered as the file-name to be appended to and the rest of the file-names will be considered as arguments to date.
Last edited by elixir_sinari; 10-01-2012 at 10:16 AM..
That's right elixir_sinari.
Please forgive my mistake and considere the following code :
Sorry Skrynesaver and ahamed101. Escaping the wildcard doesn't change anything.
Last edited by chebarbudo; 10-01-2012 at 10:27 AM..
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