Re: Glob problem

[Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>]

On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 12:45 -0400, Brent Briggs wrote:

> I am simply trying to list all matches for a specified pattern in an
> array of directory paths, the $path array for example. Here is my
> attempt. Where am I going wrong?

Globs are not ran after variable substitution by default.
To run filename generation (aka globs) after variable substitution, use
$~var.

Your example:

> pattern=git*
> for entry in $path
> do
>     # Print all files in the path that match the pattern. 
>     print $entry/$pattern
> done

Can be rewritten as:

        pattern=git*
        for entry in $path
        do
            # Print all files in the path that match the pattern. 
            print $entry/$~pattern
        done
        
It can be simplified further as:

        pattern=git*
        print $path/$~pattern

Phil.