Re: globbing in assignment

[Peter Stephenson <Peter.Stephenson@csr.com>]

On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:18:59 +0800
Han Pingtian <hanpt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> I just notice filename globbing doesn't occur in my script, like 
> 
> v=*
> 
> but it works in the interactive shell. Althoug I can make it work
> by "setop glob_assign" or use "v=(*)", but it looks like the behavior's
> diversity is a little strange.
> 
> Any thoughts?

I would guess you don't have the option set in one case, but do in
another.  Try putting "setopt globassign" at the start of the script,
which seems to do what I expect here.  There's no explicit code to stop
it working in scripts.

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