Re: bash expansion question

Lynn, [ This is almost entirely a non-Cygwin issue. ] You have the option of telling BASH to treat a glob pattern such as *.pl that matches no files to yield an empty string ("shopt -s nullglob") or the pattern itself ("shopt -u nullglob"). The default, as you now know, is to have "nullglob"

Re: bash expansion question

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 follow

bash expansion question

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 ech