Re: Puzzling discrepancy in bash variables

2008-10-15 Thread RMMM
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

Puzzling discrepancy in bash variables

2008-10-15 Thread RMMM
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