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Old 04-18-2013
Nested double quotes won't work in my bash script?

In a bash script I have:

Code:
LSCMD="find /project/media/ -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -name \"files*pkg\""
ALL_PACKAGES=$( $LSCMD | sort 2>/dev/null)

But I get nothing returned. It's just all blank. If I run the find command in a terminal, I get dozens of hits.

I figure it's the way how I'm escaping the double quotes, but after several google articles, I'm pretty sure it's allowed in bash. I even tried single quotes, 'files*pkg', but that didn't work either.

Any help?

Thanks!

Last edited by Scrutinizer; 04-18-2013 at 03:57 PM.. Reason: code tags
 

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RBASH(1)						      General Commands Manual							  RBASH(1)

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a filename containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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