Bash Path expansion

[Wm E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <3820 at casbah.acns.nwu.edu> navarra at casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra) writes:
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|      I am wondering if bash allows you to define a Path like:
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|   MAILPATH=/home-directory/Mail/*   

try "MAILPATH=`echo $HOME/Mail/* | tr " " ":"`

Prints the names with blank delimiters and changes them to : later.
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