Odd Bash script inconsistancy...

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It gives the first file... Not the wildcard argument.!!!
It seems that the wildcard is being interpreted by being the "$1" argument!
So feeding wildcards to a script just doesn`t work! Period!

Well isn't that curious!

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./script "t*"

WORKS

so you would think that if you build a wildcard parameter with single quotes around it - like this -

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# w='"t*"'
# echo $w
"t*"
# 

would do the trick - but no -

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./script $w or "$w"

FAILS

[amigo]

Enclosing in single quotes turns off expansion of wildcards -i mean the outer quotes. This: "'$var'" would still get expanded. Sometimes you have to escape characters to keep them from being immediately expanded by the shell: \$var

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amigo,

Thanks for the explanation. $@ works nicely. Also found a good short description and chart of the differences between $* and $@ here -
http://fvue.nl/wiki/Bash:_Difference_between_$@_and_$*

As a general rule they suggest mostly using $@

s