Re: [PLUG] Update: Strange Bash Behavior vis-a-vis Embedded Spaces and Wildcards

[Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com>]

In bash, " quoted strings should have all variables and wildcards expanded while ' quoted strings should parse as liberals, so I'm not sure if that's correct...

On Saturday, January 26, 2013, David Coulson  wrote:
> 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.
> >
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> > 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
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-Doug



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