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edited Dec 2, 2014 at 17:26

How can the following be changed example so that it does glob expansion after loop variable substitution?

for i in a b c
    do echo $i/*.txt
done

UPDATE: This normally does work, however set -f had been done earlier in the script I'm looking at.

How can the following be changed example so that it does glob expansion after loop variable substitution?

for i in a b c
    do echo $i/*.txt
done

How can the following be changed example so that it does glob expansion after loop variable substitution?

for i in a b c
    do echo $i/*.txt
done

UPDATE: This normally does work, however set -f had been done earlier in the script I'm looking at.

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asked Dec 2, 2014 at 17:03

Shell glob expansion after loop variable substitution

How can the following be changed example so that it does glob expansion after loop variable substitution?

for i in a b c
    do echo $i/*.txt
done

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