Bash question

[Joel Hammer]

Yes. Everything seems to get expanded.

"*.jpg"
'*jpg'
\'*jpg\'
\"*jpg\"

I tried \\'*jpg\\', too.

Just what are you trying to accomplish?

Joel


On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 06:41:28PM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> I'm trying to write a bash script that uses the 'find' command.  I want to 
> pass it a wild-card argument like   *.jpg  
> 
> The argument always does the file expansion thing like it is supposed to....  
> but is there a way to pass such an argument without having the expansion take 
> place?
> 
> Done my homework, reading the manual, trying various things out....  no joy.
> 
> Thanks....
> 
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