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[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 02 December 2008 03:25:44 David C. Rankin wrote:
> Bash wizards:
>
>       I have run across another quandary. I am trying to get a filespec from 
> the
> command line like:
>
> ./scriptname file1*
>
>       and file name expansion occurs before I can assign the filespec to a
> variable. I want to be able to grab the 'file1*' filespec without having to
> require that it be enclosed in single quotes (./scriptname 'file1*').

Others have replied with how you should be doing it, so I'll just add how you 
can disable globbing (the term for matching wild cards with file names)

set -f

or

set -o noglob on

This will disable all globbing, so file1* will be sent as is to your program.

You can turn it back on with either

set +f

or 

set -o noglob off

Anders
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