From: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
To: Kate Ebneter <kate@ning.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange behavior (possible bug) using bash command subsitution with "git branch"
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 23:49:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091108224955.GA14095@atjola.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C71C822C.22429%kate@ning.com>
On 2009.11.08 14:11:56 -0800, Kate Ebneter wrote:
> Hi, folks,
>
> I ran into a weird situation while working on a script, which is best
> described with a little snippet from my gitosis-admin repository:
>
> $ git branch
> * master
^^^
> $ branch=$(git branch)
> $ echo $branch
> gitosis.conf keydir master
Your shell expands the *, thus echo sees all the things in the current
directory. Use 'echo "$branch"' and you'll see what you expected.
Björn
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-08 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-08 22:11 Strange behavior (possible bug) using bash command subsitution with "git branch" Kate Ebneter
2009-11-08 22:46 ` Sverre Rabbelier
2009-11-08 22:50 ` Kate Ebneter
2009-11-08 22:49 ` Björn Steinbrink [this message]
2009-11-08 23:03 ` Jeff King
2009-11-08 23:10 ` Kate Ebneter
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