OT: Shell Script

[Glenn Steen]

On 07/02/06, Tim Sailer <sailer at bnl.gov> wrote:
(snip)
> for file in `echo *`
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Tim, just curious... Why do you go the "long route around" backticks
and an echo, just to use the same shell "wildcarding" mechanism as a
single "*" would give you?
That cannot be necessary... Just use an * and you'll be fine... As in
...
for file in *
do
...

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