How to prevent filename expansion in for loop in bash
- by cagri
In a for loop like this,
for i in `cat *.input`; do
echo "$i"
done
if one of the input file contains entries like *a, it will, and give
the filenames ending in 'a'.
Is there a simple way of preventing this filename expansion?
Because of use of multiple files, globbing (set -o noglob) is not a
good option. I should also be able to filter the output of cat to
escape special characters, but
for i in `cat *.input | sed 's/*/\\*'`
...
still causes *a to expand, while
for i in `cat *.input | sed 's/*/\\\\*'`
...
gives me \*a (including backslash). [ I guess this is a different
question though ]
