When the following two lines of code are executed in a bash script, "ls" complains that the files don't exist:
dirs=/content/{dev01,dev02}
ls -l $dirs
When I run the script with the -x option, it appears to be passing the variable within single quotes (which would prevent globbing):
+ dirs=/content/{dev01,dev01}
+ ls -l '/content/{dev01,dev01}'
ls: /content/{dev01,dev01}: No such file or directory
If I execute the "ls" command from my interactive shell (sans quotes), it returns the two directories.
I've been reading through the Bash Reference Manual (v 3.2) and can't see any reason for filename globbing to not take place (I'm not passing -f to the shell), or anything that I can set to ensure that globbing happens.
Any ideas?