A very simple and short blogpost today, sorries.
A colleague decided to automated some simple task by means of a shell script.
This script caused the following error:
rm: cannot remove 'tmp/*': No such file or directory
I quite quickly (after adding -f to defeat the are-you-sure-prompt) found out that double quotes indicated that it should take stuff literally. In this case the script was trying to actually delete the file tmp/*, and not finding it.
The shell did not expand the * properly when encased in double quotes.
A simple example for you to try if this is the case in your environment would be:
echo *
Instead of
echo "*"
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