-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 13-Aug-2002/17:10 +0200, cana rich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hello, > I've writen a script like this : >#!/usr/bsh >file='ls -1 /home/directory/*' >echo $file
Try this: file=`ls -1 /home/directory` >Meanwhile, when there is nothing in this directory, the script is >blocked. Bash expands the asterisk '*' to a list of file names. When there are no matching files, it returns an error. Leave off the asterisk and the shell will list what it finds, instead of trying to match filenames against the '*' pattern. Also, use the backquote [`] not the single quote [']. Tony - -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Anthony E. Greene 0x6C94239D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> iD8DBQE9WTmypCpg3WyUI50RAsBeAKC7vaNkdZxNJklFDIXB4/jFTQYNLwCfQVvk mIrhIJKPUiFaXOYWg+aUPzE= =JsI7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
