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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users find command from shell scipt (ksh) problem Post 302164599 by kodermanna on Tuesday 5th of February 2008 11:09:40 AM
Old 02-05-2008
find command from shell scipt (ksh) problem

Hi experts,

I have a simple shell script as follows.

#!/bin/ksh
FIND_STRING="\( -name 'testfile*.Z' -o -name 'DUMMY_*' \) "
find /tmp -type f $FIND_STRING -print

When I run this with ksh -x testscript, I get the following output.

+ FIND_STRING=\( -name 'testfile*.Z' -o -name 'DUMMY_*' \)
+ find /tmp -type f \( -name 'testfile*.Z' -o -name 'DUMMY_*' \) -print
find: 0652-009 There is a missing conjunction

If I cut and paste the second line of the output into the dollar prompt, it works fine. Donot know what is happening . I had posted a similar error few weeks before, but now I could pinpoint to a 2 liner.

Thanks in advance for your help.
 

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print(1)							   User Commands							  print(1)

NAME
print - shell built-in function to output characters to the screen or window SYNOPSIS
ksh print [ -Rnprsu [n]] [arg...] DESCRIPTION
ksh The shell output mechanism. With no flags or with flag - or -, the arguments are printed on standard output as described by echo(1). OPTIONS
The following options are supported: -n suppresses new-line from being added to the output. -R -r (raw mode) ignore the escape conventions of echo. The -R option will print all subsequent arguments and options other than -n. -p causes the arguments to be written onto the pipe of the process spawned with |& instead of standard output. -s causes the arguments to be written onto the history file instead of standard output. -u [ n ] flag can be used to specify a one digit file descriptor unit number n on which the output will be placed. The default is 1. EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful operation. >0 Output file is not open for writing. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
echo(1), ksh(1), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Apr 1994 print(1)
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