Re: [Help-bash] A 'for' loop through an empty directory

[Christophe Lohr]

Le 27/10/2014 13:09, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:18:07AM +0100, Christophe Lohr wrote:
> > Let's try:
> >   $ for i in /foobar/* ; do echo $i; done
> > /foobar/*
> >
> > Why do I get the string '/foobar/*' and not nothing?
> There is a bash option, "shopt -s nullglob", which will cause the
> script to act as you expect.

Thank you.
This is explained in the man but I did not understand.

Regards
Christophe