navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra) (02/22/91)
I am wondering if bash allows you to define a Path like: MAILPATH=/home-directory/Mail/* so that MAILPATH will contain every file in the dir Mail? I tried the above statement and it did not work. I also tried making a variable called allfiles=/home-dir/Mail/* but that is not quite working either -- when you set MAILPATH=$allfiles you do not get the : delimiters btw the filenames. Any suggestions? ----------------------- From the Lab of the MaD ScIenTisT navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr) (02/25/91)
In article <3820@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra) writes: | | | I am wondering if bash allows you to define a Path like: | | MAILPATH=/home-directory/Mail/* try "MAILPATH=`echo $HOME/Mail/* | tr " " ":"` Prints the names with blank delimiters and changes them to : later. -- bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen) sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me