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Eyal leshem
Eyal leshem

Reputation: 1115

bash pattern with asterisk

I have the following simple bash script:

#!/bin/bash -fx 
ls *sh

The problem is that bash add a quote to the pattern and I get wrong output. 

+ ls '*sh'
ls: cannot access *sh: No such file or directory

How can I change this behavior?

The output of ls *sh from the terminal is:

$ls *sh 
a.bash  a.sh  b.sh

I tried to add quotes according to this post - "Bash variable containing file wildcard" without success

Upvotes: 0

Views: 333

Answers (1)

whoan
whoan

Reputation: 8521

That because you're disabling pathname expansion with the -f option.

#!/bin/bash -fx

From man:

-f
    Disable filename expansion (globbing).

Upvotes: 8

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