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Abhik Bhattacharjee
Asked: 2018-11-08 09:28:07 +0800 CST

Why isn't shell expanding the braces in the shell script? [duplicate]

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I am trying the following script for listing the archived files in my current directory.

#!bin/sh
for file in *.{zip,jar}
do
echo $file
done

which gives the output:

*.{zip,jar}

Why isn't shell expanding the braces?

scripts bash

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The following shellscript works for me

    #!/bin/bash

for file in *.{png,jpg}; do echo $file; done

    1. This brace expansion works in bash, but not in sh

    2. #!bin/sh lacks a slash, should be #!/bin/sh to work correctly

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