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Re: Strange behavior (possible bug) using bash command subsitution with "git branch"

From
Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date
Nov 8, 2009, 22:49 UTC
Message-ID
<20091108224955.GA14095@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To
<C71C822C.22429%kate@ning.com>
On 2009.11.08 14:11:56 -0800, Kate Ebneter wrote:
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> Hi, folks,
> 
> I ran into a weird situation while working on a script, which is best
> described with a little snippet from my gitosis-admin repository:
> 
>     $ git branch
>     * master
     ^^^
>     $ branch=$(git branch)
>     $ echo $branch
>     gitosis.conf keydir master

Your shell expands the *, thus echo sees all the things in the current directory. Use 'echo "$branch"' and you'll see what you expected.

Björn
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