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troubleshooter · Apr 4th, 2005, 5:49 PM

hi, i need some help trouble shoting some syntax problems,

in a normal terminal when i type

ls !(*.zip)

it all works fine.
but when i try a simple script such as

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#!/bin/bash

ls !(*.zip)

i get

Quote:

~/src/scripts$ ./test.sh
./test.sh: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./test.sh: line 3: `ls !(*.zip)'

and the only way i can get it to work is by chaning it to

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#!/bin/bash
ls !(`*.zip`)

but it doesnt work how i want it

so could anyone show me why its working differntly in the terminal and script and show me what would be the correct syntax?

thanks

tempest · Apr 4th, 2005, 6:54 PM

I only got this far before giving up...

This shows all the *.zip files (not all but *.zip)...

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#!/bin/bash
CMD="*.zip"
echo $CMD

troubleshooter · Apr 5th, 2005, 9:34 PM

i figured it out.
shopt extglob was set to off when running a script but was turned on when using the teriminal.

Apr 4th, 2005, 6:54 PM	#2
tempest Programming Guru Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,041 Rep Power: 5	I only got this far before giving up... This shows all the .zip files (not all but .zip)... (Toggle Plain Text) #!/bin/bash CMD=".zip" echo $CMD #!/bin/bash CMD=".zip" echo $CMD

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syntax problems.