RMMM wrote:
>
> As far as I can tell, the variables $filenames and $filenames1 have the
> same values. Yet, they
> behave differently when used in an argument. Is there some hidden aspect
> to a bash variable
> that I'm not seeing?
>
I just figured out the proble
I'm trying to create a bash function for use in auto completion, but
I've run into bash behavior I don't understand. All I want to do is
generate a list of the file names from a certain directory. I have a line
filenames=$(for file in `ls -1 mydir`; do echo -n "${file} " ; done )
This seems to p