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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Help using variable in find rule Post 302708887 by skwyer on Tuesday 2nd of October 2012 11:19:41 AM
Old 10-02-2012
Help using variable in find rule
I'm not able to use a variable in my find rule. It's essentially being ignored.

I'm trying to store a list of file types to ignore in a variable.

This is the relevant code.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh

EXCEPTIONS='-not -name "*.xom" -a -not -name "*.sh" -a -not -name "*.pl"'

/usr/local/bin/find path/to/files $EXCEPTIONS > FileList.txt

When I use the contents of the EXCEPTIONS variable directly, the find rule works. However the variable doesn't work at all? Is this even possible?
 

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