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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing wildcard parameters to find via a variable Post 302495138 by mij on Wednesday 9th of February 2011 11:31:54 AM
Old 02-09-2011
It is always something simple! I probably should quote everything anyway to be safe, I do have files with spaces, but just quoting the ${FS_EXCLUDE[@]} variable was the missing piece to make the script work.

I am struggling to see the logic of why it makes a difference, though, as surely when the array elements are unpacked they would be within the quotes and so passed as a single parameter?

Anyway, it works now, so many thanks.

Michael.
 

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