On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 11:31:27PM -0700, Drake Wyrm wrote: > Harald van D??k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any is fine, there is no word splitting or wildcard expansion in > > shell variable assignments. > > $ foo="bar * baz" > $ wombat=$foo > $ echo $wombat > bar somedir somefile baz
The wildcard expansion is not during the variable assignment, it's during the expansion of $wombat. Just try echo "$wombat" instead. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list