Re: Calling Bash with /S

[Roman Rakus]

On 06/22/2011 06:59 PM, sweinberger wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am calling bash from dmake.  The make file initiates the call to bash as
> follows:
>
> /bin/bash /S /c ""
/bin/bash -S -c ?
Anyway, -S is not valid option in Fedora's bash version 4.1.7.
> The command to execute is between the double quotes.  For instance
>
> In Make File:
> @ls -l ./SomeDir/*
>
> Bash Command
> /bin/bash /S /c "ls -l ./SomeDir/*"
>
> The /S from what I see enables regular expression processing in the bash
> command line, but maybe I might be wrong.  In any event, the problem that I
> have is the asterisk.  Bash does not like it.  I tried escaping it with a
> backslash up to nine levels but that did not work; should only require one.
Pathname expansion is on by default. Can be turned off by `set -f' or 
invoking bash with `-f' option.
> Yes, the actual command that I use is not ls.  In the real example, I am
> using "rm -f", but ls is a good example too and safer for experimentation.
>
> How do I write the command line, so that it works?  "ls -l ./SomeDir/\*"
> does not work, nor anything else that I tried so far.
Explain what means `does not work'. What it does?
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sarah

RR