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Re: wildcard and variable expansion



On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:50:28PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:31:07PM +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote:
> > export MASTER_HOST=`hostname`
> > export FILE_PATH=some_file_path
> > pbsdsh -- /bin/sh -c 'scp $FILE_PATH/file* $MASTER_HOST:'
> 
> Have you tried double quotes ?
> pbsdsh -- /bin/sh -c "scp $FILE_PATH/file* $MASTER_HOST:"

Or using double quotes around what the master host has to expand 
and single quotes around what has to be passed on intact to the 
target host:

pbsdsh -- /bin/sh -c "scp $FILE_PATH/'file*' $MASTER_HOST:"


> 
> Frank
> 
> 
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