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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Bash Path expansion
Message-ID: <3301@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 91 17:43:19 GMT
References: <3820@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
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In article <3820@casbah.acns.nwu.edu> navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra) writes:
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|      I am wondering if bash allows you to define a Path like:
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|   MAILPATH=/home-directory/Mail/*   

try "MAILPATH=`echo $HOME/Mail/* | tr " " ":"`

Prints the names with blank delimiters and changes them to : later.
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