extensions- simple question

hi guys

i have this script

Doc_=/home/$USER/Documentos/*.odt || .doc

but in the code above, only .odt files are selected, all .doc none.

What is the error in the code?

thanks

Try:

Doc_="home/$USER/Documentos/*.odt home/$USER/Documentos/*.doc"

But it will not work with file names with spaces and you need to call the variable without quotes...

This could help provided you don't have file extensions other than .doc and .odt for the below combination

Doc_="/home/$USER/Documentos/*.[od][do][tc]"

thanks for your time, it's works perfect

Note that the expansion is not done when the assignment is made, only when the variable is expanded (and not quoted). See the output of:

echo "$Doc_"

In ksh93 and bash with extglob set, you can use:

Doc_="+(*.doc|*.odt)"

Better might be to use an array (bash and ksh93):

Doc_=( +(*.doc|*.odt) )
printf "%s\n" "${Doc_[@]}"

I noticed that for some reason this works in bash but not in ksh93

$ Doc_=+(*.doc|*.odt)
$ ls $Doc_
ls: cannot access +(*.doc|*.odt): No such file or directory

$ ls +(*.doc|*.odt)
a.doc  a.odt
$ ls @(*.doc|*.odt)
a.doc  a.odt

It works without the variable and also when a variable contains regular globbing characters...

$ Doc_="*.doc *.odt"
$ ls $Doc_
a.doc  a.odt

but there is any advantage over this code?

 Doc_="/home/$USER/Documentos/*.[od][do][tc]" $Doc_

That will also match *.ooc, *.dot, etc..

i try this

Doc_="/home/$USER/Documentos/"*.doc *.odt" 

but only first type of documents is devolved, in this case .doc files

�*.odt�: No such file or directory

probably is a restriction of my distro, i don't know

That line has unmatched quotes; it is not a complete command.

After filename expansion, this line:

Doc_="/home/$USER/Documentos/*.doc *.odt"

matches all .doc files in /home/$USER/Documentos/ and all .odt files in the current directory.

yes, i have an error on the quotes, but even correct quotes, the same occurs

Doc_="/home/$USER/Documentos/*.doc *.odt"

return: �*.odt�: No such file or directory

Of course it does. Re-read what I wrote.

Try this:

Doc_="/home/$USER/Documentos/*.doc /home/$USER/Documentos/*.odt"

 #!/bin/bash 
var="/path/*.{doc,odt}"

 Doc_="/home/$USER/Documentos/*.doc /home/$USER/Documentos/*.odt"

yes it work's !! thanks for your patience, now i understand the reason of that occurs

if you permit another simple question, when i have a awk file (like example.awk), the header must be #!/bin/bash or #!/bin/awk -f ?

What is correct?

i really appreciate your help