[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Help-bash] Pathname expansion without word splitting
|
From: |
Geir Hauge |
|
Subject: |
Re: [Help-bash] Pathname expansion without word splitting |
|
Date: |
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 09:58:02 +0200 |
|
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 12:41:45PM +1200, Sebastian Unger wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I have tried to work this out by myself, but despite many years experience
> writing bash scripts I was stumped a bit by this one:
>
> Given an array of pathname patterns, create a new array with all matching
> file names (and only those) without running an external command. Be aware
> that the pathname patterns may contain blanks (otherwise it would be too
> simple ;-).
You disable word splitting by assigning the empty string to IFS
shopt -s nullglob
IFS=
array=( address@hidden )
--
Geir Hauge