Question

I have a bash function like the following:

foo() {
    echo $1
}

or

bar() {
    baz $1
}

If I then call foo 'file[1-3]' the result is file1 file2 file3, not file[1-3]. Analogous phenomenon happens when passing the parameter to a call of another bash function like in the function bar. What’s the easiest way around this besides ensuring that there are no matching files in the current directory so that I can reference the parameter when echoing or passing the parameter to another function?

EDIT: String matching doesn’t seem to expand the glob. My specific problem manifested when performing a string match in the internal call to another function. It was the call to the other function that appears to have expanded the pattern.

Answer 1

Insert this into the top of your script:

set -o noglob