Re: Problem with variable

On 2006-06-01, Marco wrote:


If you do not want the shell to expand $COMMON, use "$COMMON":

jar cmf META-INF/MANIFEST.MF classname.jar "$COMMON" ...

I try it, but doesn't work. I think that the shell MUST expand $COMMON,
but if I define $COMMON before creating *.class (as I must do), I
received a strange error (without nome of the file):

: impossibile trovare il file o la directory
[impossible to find the file or the directory]

What is $COMMON expanding to? Does it include an unexpanded
wildcard?


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