* is not parsed correctly

[pmitchev]

The following code is not working:

! /usr/bin/env bash

. ticktick.sh DATA='{"a":"*"}' tickParse "$DATA" echo a

It outputs ls of the current directory. OS: MacOSX

[kristopolous]

Hah. clever clever. I bet this is just standard shell globbing. Let me look into it now.

On 11/28/2014 04:12 AM, pmitchev wrote:

The following code is not working:

! /usr/bin/env bash

. ticktick.sh DATA='{"a":"*"}' tickParse "$DATA" echo |a|

It outputs |ls| of the current directory. OS: MacOSX

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[kristopolous]

Ok so you are close.

There's something that needs to be documented called tickVars that may have helped you getting here.

Basically what happens is this:

#!/bin/bash

n='*'
echo $n

The * gets replaced by the variable substitution before the globber runs. In order to print just the asterisk you'll need to encapsulate that as follows

echo "$n"

As in, this is a bash-ism and therefore not my bug.

/wipes sweat-laden forehead in relief.