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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting find: No match due to find command being argument Post 302340515 by mst3k4l on Monday 3rd of August 2009 05:21:07 PM
Old 08-03-2009
find: No match due to find command being argument
I am using csh and getting the error "find: No match." but I cannot figure out why. What I am trying to do is set the find command to a variable and then execute the variable as a command. I ran it through a debugger and it looks like $FIND is getting set but the find command can not actually be found. Here is what the debugger produced:
Quote:
set LIST = find orion/ic -path *arg*
find: No match.
The actual code states:
Code:
set LIST = "find orion/ic -path *arg*"
${LIST} -name "*.ic"

However, the code does work when *arg* is not included in the definition of $LIST. *arg* does need to be in quotes though.
Code:
set LIST = "find orion/ic -path"
${LIST} "*arg*" -name "*.ic"

As a result, I tried to put quotes around *arg* when it was part of $LIST, but I received the same "No match" error.
Quote:
set LIST = find orion/ic -path "*arg*"
find: No match.
This code is being added to an already existing script, so csh MUST be used.
 

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AID(1)								   User Commands							    AID(1)

NAME

       aid - Query ID database and report results.

SYNOPSIS

       aid [OPTION]... PATTERN...

DESCRIPTION

       Query  ID database and report results.  By default, output consists of multiple lines, each line containing the matched identifier followed
       by the list of file names in which it occurs.

       -f, --file=FILE
	      file name of ID database

       -i, --ignore-case
	      match PATTERN case insensitively

       -l, --literal
	      match PATTERN as a literal string

       -r, --regexp
	      match PATTERN as a regular expression

       -w, --word
	      match PATTERN as a delimited word

       -s, --substring
	      match PATTERN as a substring

	      Note: If PATTERN contains extended regular expression metacharacters, it is interpreted as a regular expression  substring.   Other-
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       -k, --key=STYLE
	      STYLE is one of `token', `pattern' or `none'

       -R, --result=STYLE
	      STYLE is one of `filenames', `grep', `edit' or `none'

       -S, --separator=STYLE
	      STYLE is one of `braces', `space' or `newline' and only applies to file names when `--result=filenames'

	      The above STYLE options control how query results are presented.	Defaults are --key=token --result=filenames --separator=space

       -F, --frequency=FREQ
	      find tokens that occur FREQ times, where FREQ is a range expressed as `N..M'.  If N is omitted, it defaults to 1, if M is omitted it
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       -a, --ambiguous=LEN
	      find tokens whose names are ambiguous for LEN chars

       -x, --hex
	      only find numbers expressed as hexadecimal

       -d, --decimal
	      only find numbers expressed as decimal

       -o, --octal
	      only find numbers expressed as octal

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SEE ALSO

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