On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 08:50:28AM +0200, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> I'm looking for a substitute for (unposixly) doing "shopt -s nullglob"
> before a loop over an expansion.
>
> Is there a good substitution?
>
> The shortest I came up with was doing
>
> [ "$(echo *.foo)" = "*.foo" ] || for X in *.foo ; do foo "${X}"; done
There might actually be a file called "*.foo" :-)
I'd probably give up and use find/xargs instead myself.
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