Bash glob parameter only shows first file instead of all files

Question

I want to run this cmd line script

$ script.sh   lib/* ../test_git_thing

I want it to process all the files in the /lib folder.

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Answer 1

The argument list is being expanded at the command line when you invoke "script.sh lib/*" your script is being called with all the files in lib/ as args. Since you only reference $1 in your script, it's only printing the first file. You need to escape the wildcard on the command line so it's passed to your script to perform the globbing.