On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Craig White <craig.white at ttiltd.com> wrote: > Some really good suggestions but unfortunately no dice > > On Aug 15, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Larry Martell wrote: > >> Run the script with -x to see what's happening. $NAME is probably >> getting expanded. You might have to set noglob. > ---- > set +o noglob (inside or outside script made no difference This worked for me: $ cat t.sh set -o noglob NAME="*.mov" find . -maxdepth 1 -name $NAME -print $ touch t.mov t2.mov $ bash t.sh ./t.mov ./t2.mov