On 22 May 2012, at 16:15, Bernhard Rohrer wrote:
> may I ask for help with bash again please? I have a .jar that when told to work on * only works on the first file in the directory. Can anybody suggest a simple way to make it munch through the whole directory?
When you issue a command line such as
WHATEVER *
the executable WHATEVER is searched for along the path, and then called with whatever * expands to in the current directory (and current bash versions may pass a literal * to the app. if no match is found).
If your jar only process the first file, this means that it doesn't have internal logic to process more than one command line argument (though it could conceivably do its own wild card expansion - what happens if you pass it '*' ?)
Presuming that this doesn't work, the way to handle it with bash is
for arg in *; do WHATEVER $arg;done
Niall
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