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I am wondering is there is a way to assign a regular expression as a character in a string to a variable and not have the regular expression change my variable.

For example: in my directory I am working on I have: A.cc, A.hh, and foo.sh.

In foo.sh: 

var=$(A*)

echo $var

I am trying to assign to var specifically A* and not A.cc, A.hh, which is what happening with *.

I am using /bin/sh.

Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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ucr
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    use `var=A*; printf "%s\n" "$var"`. see: [What is $() in a command?](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/147420/what-is-in-a-command), [Why does my shell script choke on whitespace or other special characters?](http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/131766/why-does-my-shell-script-choke-on-whitespace-or-other-special-characters) and [Why is printf better than echo?](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65803/why-is-printf-better-than-echo) – Evgeny Vereshchagin Aug 09 '15 at 04:53

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use quotes to stop bash from globbing.

var="A*"
echo "$var"
Jasen
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