When I run the following command
./command *
using this script
#!/bin/bash
for f in ./$1
do
echo $f
done
only the first file specified in $1 is echoed. My question is why?
Because you didn't used simple or double quotes when you ran your command:
./command '*'
or:
./command "*"
Or, if you want certainly to use ./command *, then make the following modification in your script:
#!/bin/bash
for f in ./"$@"
do
echo $f
done
That's because $1 refers to the first argument from your command ans $@ refers to all arguments from your command.
Read also some documentation in this sense: http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/internalvariables.html#APPREF
