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The command noglob ${command}
is used to prevent globbing or file name expansion by the shell for the specified ${command}
.
Globbing is the mechanism in which the shell expands special characters like *
, ?
, and [ ]
into matching filenames or paths in the current directory. This can be useful in normal shell operations, but sometimes you may want to pass a command to the shell without any globbing to be performed on its arguments.
By using noglob
in front of ${command}
, it disables globbing for that particular command. This means that the shell will treat the arguments of ${command}
literally without performing any filename expansion. This can be important when you want to pass file names or special characters as arguments to a command, but you don't want the shell to perform any transformation on them.