That did the trick, thanks for the help and the suggestion. On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Charles Bailey <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 04:58:10PM +0000, Charles Bailey wrote: >> >> Looking at the two outputs, you are seeing the shell's glob expansion of >> the '*' current branch marker. You probably want to quote the command >> expansion to prevent this: >> >> echo "$(git branch -a)" > > Pressing send has, of course, caused me to think further. You probably > don't want to parse the output of a "porcelain" command such as "git > branch" at all, but instead look at using something like "git > for-each-ref", perhaps with the --format=%(refname) option, grepping out > master and iterating through the rest. -- Alex Jones | Software Engineer 919-238-4404 direct 336-263-2099 mobile netsertive.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html