shell script array problem

ajayyadavmca · 06-20-2012, 09:33 AM

hi, this could be simple one.
I have one file which contains variables like..

Code:

...
files=( /root/b/*.txt /root/xyz.txt)
..

now I have script which reads above file.

Code:

....
if [[ "${#files[@]}" != 0 ]]
then
    for i in "${files[@]}"; do echo $i; done
else
    echo "not correct"
fi
....

suppose /root/b folder has 5 .txt files than array "files" gets 5 + 1(xyz.txt)=6 values.

what i want as out put is:
same what is written there (with * character) that means array should have just 2 elements like:

Code:

/root/b/*.txt 
/root/xyz.txt

So * should be there and should not get expanded.

Thanks, Ajay

grail · 06-20-2012, 10:14 AM

So put single quotes around it and it won't get expanded.

ajayyadavmca · 06-21-2012, 01:41 AM

Thanks, this is same what i did.

grail · 06-21-2012, 09:35 AM

Please mark as SOLVED once you have a solution.