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Re: Puzzling discrepancy in bash variables
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RMMM |
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Re: Puzzling discrepancy in bash variables |
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:21:39 -0700 (PDT) |
RMMM wrote:
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> 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 problem. I was running this in a shell with
dircolors. Arggg!
doing
filenames=`ls --color=no mydir`
is all I needed to do. Well ... maybe there's some better way of getting the
filenames
that's immune to any invisible codes.
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