12-18-2008
FIND command help
Hi I am new to scripting , need some clarification while assigning the output of 'FIND' command to a variable.
i.e. I am trying to find a file in a directory (I know it exists) and then wish to assign the file_name to a variable say 'file'
Now this is how my shell looks .
${i} # variable for storing file name
for i in `find ${FTP_DIR}/RTM/Outbound -type f -name '*file_name*' -print`;
do cp $i ${TGT_DIR};
done;
Above command works fine (i.e. copies file 'file_name' from RTM/Outbound to TGT_DIR).
Now I wish to store this name of the file to a variable say 'x' so that I can
further work on it.
I wrote the following command for getting the file name from TGT_DIR
${v}
v=`find ${TGT_DIR} -type f -name 'file_name' -printf %f`
echo ${v}
I encounter a error :
find: bad option -printf
find: path-list predicate-list
v=
+ echo
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