Till Halbach wrote: > The bash manual for the control structure 'for name [ in word ] ; do > list ; done' says: > 'The list of words following in is expanded, generating a list of > items.' However, if no files are found, it is set equal to the query > string.
If you want filename expansion patterns which match no files to expand to the null string rather than themselves, set the `nullglob' option with `shopt -s nullglob'. The word following `in' is expanded using the normal set of expansions. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ( ``Discere est Dolere'' -- chet ) Live...Laugh...Love Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash