[Nottingham] "unescaping" the wildcard character for xargs

[Martin]

On 19/06/12 14:04, Camilo Mesias wrote:
> I'm guessing you haven't had to use 'glob' before. It's a bash feature
> that will re expand for you. Try piping through glob before xargs and
> all should be well.

Please expand further?

There's:

man 7 glob


However, there is no explicit "glob" command nor one that bash interprets...

So, how do you do a:

<command> | glob | xargs cat

?


bash: glob: command not found

Cheers,
Martin

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