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From: navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Bash Path expansion
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Date: 21 Feb 91 22:03:15 GMT
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     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?

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