Script help needed.

[Sebastien Masson]

I have a shell variable with this:

$tmpdir="/opt/omni/newconfig/var/opt/omni/tmp /opt/hpnp/tmp /opt/bb18b3/tmp /opt/foglight/tmp /tmp /var/opt/pd/tmp /var/opt/omni.bak/tmp /var/tmp /var/spool/cron/tmp /var/dt/tmp"

I use this command to put a /* at the end of each path:

# echo $tmpdir | sed -e 's/ /\/\* /g' | sed -e 's/\(.*\)$/\1\/\*/'

Now if I:

a=$(echo $tmpdir | sed -e 's/ /\/\* /g' | sed -e 's/\(.*\)$/\1\/\*/');

The output of $a have all the file in each path. How do I prevent path filename resolving in inline substitution

[Robin Wakefield · Accepted solution]

Hi Sebastien,

Issue "set -f" before you issue the command, to disable filename generation.

Switch it back on with "set +f"

Rgds, Robin.

[harry d brown jr]

how about putting a double backslash in front of \*, like \\\*


live free or die
harry

[harry d brown jr]

Robin,

That's why I love this forum. I just learned something new :-))

thanks!!!


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harry

[Deepak Extross]

This is nowhere near as elegant as Robin's reply, but I remember getting around this problem by
#mkdir -p /tmp/temp_dir111
#cd -p /tmp/temp_dir111

(there are no files here, so nothing to expand)
#cd -
#rm -rf /tmp/temp_dir111

if only i was into this forum back then...