On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 13:38 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 06:24:21PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > > On Thu, 2022-05-19 at 07:00 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > 1) For ** to work, you need to do "shopt -s globstar" somewhere before it. > > > > I didn't know that, it works for me without setting that option. > > > > $ shopt | grep globstar > > globstar off > > $ echo /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/**/serial > > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/usb1/serial > > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/usb2/serial > > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/usb3/serial > > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/usb4/serial > > You're getting the exact same results you'd get from > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/usb/*/serial
Indeed, I am. So for my script I don't need ** as there is only a single unknown directory in the path I'm interested in. -- Tixy
