[lug] help! shell script

[Kirk Rafferty]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Rich Deeming wrote:

> Legin,
> 
> Don't use the (') around the file selection.
> ie. for a in *.tar.gz

Oh jeez, I'm a dork.  My previous post recommended using grave quotes.
Which would have been fine if you were doing something like:

for a in `ls *.tar.gz`
do
.

But which does *not* work for:

for a in `*.tar.gz`
.


Sorry for the bad advice.  Rich is correct, just eliminate all quotes.
Grave quotes only for executing commands.

Doh, sorry!

-k

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