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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Simple Find file Script..... Post 302282357 by elbombillo on Friday 30th of January 2009 04:46:41 PM
Old 01-30-2009
Simple Find file Script.....
Im trying to make a very simple find the first file with the .zip extension in a specific folder and open that file.

The folder path and file name will vary every-time and it may contain spaces. If I try to look

For this example the folder directory is /Users/username/Desktop/testfolder/abc def/ and the file is firstfile.zip.

If I manually enter the file destination it does

Code:
file=`find ~/Desktop/testfolder/abc\ def -name '*.zip' | head -1`
echo $file

It finds the file.
/Users/user/Desktop/testfolder/abc def/firstfile.zip

but if I try to use a Variable for the path it fails.
Code:
downdir='~/Desktop/testfolder/abc\ def'
file=`find "$downdir" -name '*.zip' | head -1`
echo $file

It gives me an error
find: ~/Desktop/testfolder/abc\ def: No such file or directory

I tried to use single quotas and double quotas and no quotas but can't get this to go. Any help would be appreciated.
 

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RMF(1)								     [nmh-1.5]								    RMF(1)

NAME

       rmf - remove an nmh folder

SYNOPSIS

       rmf [+folder] [-interactive | -nointeractive] [-version] [-help]

DESCRIPTION

       Rmf removes all of the messages (files) within the specified (or default) folder, and then removes the folder (directory) itself.

       If  there  are  any  files  within the folder which are not a part of nmh, they will not be removed, and an error will be produced.  If the
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       If the folder being removed is a subfolder, the parent folder will become the new current folder, and rmf will produce  a  message  telling
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FILES

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PROFILE COMPONENTS

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SEE ALSO

       rmm(1)

DEFAULTS

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