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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How to get Find command work with a variable passing "*" value? Post 302085121 by tayyabq8 on Tuesday 15th of August 2006 10:07:39 AM
Old 08-15-2006
EDIT---
Updated to take care of "*", here is the code and sample use of the script:
Code:
admin@unix1:/home/admin/scripts$./find1 name "*.txt"
./test1/a.txt
./a.txt
./b.txt

Code:
admin@unix1:/home/admin/scripts$cat find1
### (script name = rmf.sh)
 #!/bin/ksh -x
 #$1 - name of option
 #$2 - pattern of filename or age of file
tmp=`echo "$2" | sed 's/\"//'`
if [ "$1" == "name" ]; then
    optn="-name"
else
    optn="-mtime"
fi
find . -type f $optn "$tmp" -print

Regards,
Tayyab
Last edited by tayyabq8; 08-15-2006 at 11:32 AM.. Reason: Updated to take "*" as argument
 

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