In bash, the file globbing * doesn't work inside double quotes, but my filename contains whitespace, so I need to double quote filename before passing it to a shell script. How can I do that?
For example
myscript.sh "0$i*.pdf"
where the pdf files may be "01a b.pdf", "02c d.pdf". I use i to store 1 and then 2.
Thanks.
Simply unquote the glob.
myscript.sh "0$i"*".pdf"
It seems you are worried that * would expand to a string containing whitespace, b? That is no problem, after pathname expansion (as known as globbing), whitespace loses its syntatical value and becomes literal.
See a sample execution:
$ ls -1
'01a b.pdf'
'01e f.pdf'
'02c d.pdf'
myscript.sh
$ cat myscript.sh
#!/bin/sh
for file in "$@"; do
echo "$file"
done
$ i=1
$ ./myscript.sh "0$i"*".pdf"
01a b.pdf
01e f.pdf
myscript.sh "0$i"*".pdf".