On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:01:05AM +0100, Henk Langeveld wrote:
> > How do I get variable a to contain the expanded list of files, rather
> > than the glob itself?
>
> Hi Jenny, this should do what you want:
>
> $ b=$(print $a)
> $ echo "$b"
> foo1 foo2 foo3
> $
Also:
% set -A b -- $a
% print -- "$...@]}"
foo1 foo2 foo3
%
Here 'b' is an array variable, which may not be what you want.
Also:
% OIFS=$IFS
% IFS=
% set -A b -- $a
% IFS=$OIFS
% print -- "${b[0]}"
foo1 foo2 foo3
%
And there are other ways:
% function assign_all {
> typeset -n var=$1
> var="$*"
> }
% assign b $a
% print -- $b
foo1 foo2 foo3
%
...
Nico
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