04-24-2011
Using variable to store of find command
Hello Experts
I am newbie to unix and writing one script to make archive files
Problme i am facing is : I have used find command to find the type of files and I am storing find command results in a variable.
When I echo the variable I can see that path is printed properly but when i am making non-enpty or null check on variable it find variable as empty.
var=find . -name ...etc
echo $var ...prints properly but
if(! -z var) (ignores if and goes to else ...it means to me is that variable is empty)
can you please tell how to check if the variable is not null or contain string.
thanks for looking into it.
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