On 2009.11.08 14:11:56 -0800, Kate Ebneter wrote:
> 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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