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Re: what is wrong here?
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mhenn |
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Re: what is wrong here? |
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Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:25:24 -0000 |
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Am 08.08.2011 11:33, schrieb Francky Leyn:
> Hello,
>
> consider the following code:
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> EXTENSION=jpg
> INPUT_FILES=*.$EXTENSION
echo "$INPUT_FILES" #obviously wrong
#instead maybe
INPUT_FILES="$(ls *.$EXTENSION)"
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> if [ -z "$INPUT_FILES" ]; then
> echo "No .$EXTENSION input files in this directory"
> exit -1
> fi
>
[...]
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> What is wrong here?
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> Best regards,
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> Francky Leyn
I think there are even better ways to do this, but this is one that came
to my mind at the moment.
btw:
man bash | less -p 'Pathname expansion'