| David Coulson on 26 Jan 2013 14:29:21 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Update: Strange Bash Behavior vis-a-vis Embedded Spaces and Wildcards |
Your quote includes the asterisk, so it is interpreted as a literal, rather than wildcard. Sent from my iPad On Jan 26, 2013, at 5:27 PM, Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org> wrote: > Ooops, I over-simplified the example: > > try > > ls "directory with spaces/*name" (with a wildcard). > > > > but > > ls directory\ with\ spaces/*name works > > > > Also, as David Coulson suggested > > ls "directory with spaces"/*name also works. > > It must be something with the quoted wildcard. > > > > > > > > On Saturday, January 26, 2013 4:13:37 PM Casey Bralla wrote: >> I recently tried to do a file deletion and got some strange results. >> >> If I did this command: >> >> rm "/directory with spaces/filename" (with quotes around the full path and >> file name) the command would error out with a file-not-found error. >> >> However, this command works just fine: >> >> rm /directory\ with\ spaces/filename >> >> >> I thought quoting the filename would work, but I had to escape the spaces >> to make it work. I find the escape method to be difficult to read, while >> the quoted string is very easy. Hence, I always use the quoted method. >> >> Can anybody explain why the quoted string does not work? > > -- > > > Casey Bralla > > Chief Nerd in Residence > The NerdWorld Organisation > www.NerdWorld.org > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug