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Rev

Thanks, this works. I've never seen shopt -s nullglob before but it makes the difference here. I just hope it doesn't trigger any problems in the remainder of the script (at least it does weird things to normal Bash shell). Can you turn that mode off later in the script?

Jonik
– Jonik

2013-11-12 10:07:29 +00:00
Commented Nov 12, 2013 at 10:07
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@Jonik Sure, just call shopt -u nullglob. It could cause problems if your script does some things that rely on POSIX null globbing behaviour. help shopt may also give you some useful information about it.

Chris Down
– Chris Down

2013-11-12 10:10:16 +00:00
Commented Nov 12, 2013 at 10:10
if you have files FOO_1.out and FOO_1.arc and you only want to match arc files then this doesn't work and files=( FOO*.arc ) will return 1 even you only have a FOO_1.out which is not desired

Brian Wiley
– Brian Wiley

2022-07-24 12:31:10 +00:00
Commented Jul 24, 2022 at 12:31

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