[SOLVED] Use wildcard in bash with a path containing spaces

Issue

I have the below command which I want to run through a bash for loop:

inputdir="/mnt/c/Users/OneDrive - ABC/DNA/raw_vcf"
vcfs="(${inputdir}/*.vcf.gz)"
for v in "${vcfs[@]}"
do
     echo "input: $v"
done

I got

input: /mnt/c/Users/OneDrive - ABC/DNA/raw_vcf/*.vcf.gz

I think it might be due to the spaces in the path. How to fix this problem?

Solution

Quote only the expansion containing the space, and not the glob (and certainly not the parenthesis).

vcfs=( "$inputdir"/*.vcf.gz )

Answered By - Charles Duffy