RMMM wrote: > > As far as I can tell, the variables $filenames and $filenames1 have the > same values. Yet, they > behave differently when used in an argument. Is there some hidden aspect > to a bash variable > that I'm not seeing? >
I just figured out the problem. I was running this in a shell with dircolors. Arggg! doing filenames=`ls --color=no mydir` is all I needed to do. Well ... maybe there's some better way of getting the filenames that's immune to any invisible codes. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Puzzling-discrepancy-in-bash-variables-tp20003296p20003300.html Sent from the Gnu - Bash mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
