I've a problem with display "*" character:
I'd like to use a script which take a complete path of set of files or directories in argument and separate them into their "dirname" part and their "basename" part.
It works nearly exept that if i want to display the result (dirname + basename), i have problem while displaying the value of the basename part:
for example with arg="/app/share/" and argbase=$(basename $arg)
echo $argbase will display all the file and directories instead of ""
At command prompt, i've no problems but only when using kshell scripts ...
It could work but i'd like to keep the meaning of "".
Furthermore, "arg=/app/share/" is just an example, i have develop a generic menu which should call above a set of scripts using this type of arguments.
I am probably way off, but are you trying to give the menu the ability to run any script/program in a given directory?
For example, if you have 1.sh and 2.sh in /usr/share, and 3.sh and 4.sh in /opt/share, and your menu's current working directory is /opt/share, you'd have a list of the available scripts to run?
Please let me know, because there may be a simple way of doing this via the "select" shell builtin (if you're using a shell that supports it).
I don't think that the menu is in question for the moment. In fact and for informations, the script menu reads a list of scripts according to specific arguments.
Actualy, i'm trying different syntax of echo command like (echo , echo "") but in certain case(?), that does not work in shell scripts.
I've found a simple solution to my problem.
It's just syntactic:
My solution is based on behavior of echo command like describe above and the maner of passing parameters (with quotes !).
