At 12:16 PM 3/11/2002, Lynn Wilson wrote: >The man page for bash says: >Enclosing characters in single quotes preserves the lit- >eral value of each character within the quotes. A single >quote may not occur between single quotes, even when pre- >ceded by a backslash. > >If I write the following bash script( test.bash ): >#!/usr/bin/bash >echo Argument is $1 > >If I execute this script in a directory that does NOT constain >any perl (*.pl) files: > >test.bash '*.pl' >I get as expected: Argument is *.pl > >However if there IS a perl file present I get: >Argument is filename.pl > >BTW, I get exactly the same behavior if I use double quotes. >Am I missing something here? I need to pass a literal pattern that >may contain wildcard characters into a bash script and not have the >shell expand it.
This really isn't related to Cygwin. It's a shell question. I suggest you take it to the appropriate forum. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
