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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.att
Subject: Strangeness in shell
Keywords: SysV Bourne shell
Message-ID: <432@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 13:11:22 GMT
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Organization: Mercer County Community College, Trenton, New Jersey
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If I assign a shell variable a value that contains an asterisk, the
shell behaves strangely if there is a space adjacent to said asterisk. 
For example,
	x='*z'
	echo ${x}
produces
	*z
but 
	x='* z'
	echo ${x}
produces
	(a list of all the files in the current directory) z
	
What does the space have to do with this?

Please mail and I'll summarize if there is interest.  Thanks.

-- 
Pete Holsberg -- Mercer College -- Trenton, NJ 08690
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