[PATCH 1/2] hush: expand variables before globbing in for loops

[Sascha Hauer]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 03:17:13PM +0100, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> The following does work:
> 
> for i in *; do echo $i; done
> 
> but the following does not:
> 
> a="*"; for i in $a; do echo $i; done
> 
> This is because globbing in for loops takes place before the variable
> is expanded. Fix this by explicitly expanding the variables before globbing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>

I'll drop this one. While it makes the situation better in some cases,
it does not entirely fix this issue. I think hush is just too buggy to
fix this properly.

Sascha


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