On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 01:14:45PM -0400, znoteer--- via talk wrote:

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Le 1 juin 2018 à 11:10, Lennart Sorensen via talk <talk@gtalug.org> a écrit :

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$ for f in "*.png"; do echo "$f"; done a b c.png a.png b.png c.png

$ for f in "*.png"; do echo "$f"; done *.png

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I don't understand what's going on here. The exact same command is giving two different results? When I try this on my system, I don't get a single-line listing of the 4 files, but rather the result "*.png" as you did in the second run of the command above. Is there a typo somewhere? Did you mean for the two commands above to be the same?

Hugh was right. I had a cut and paste error. The first one was not supposed to have quites in the echo command. -- Len Sorensen