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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash expansion Post 302991395 by Don Cragun on Friday 10th of February 2017 04:33:14 AM
Old 02-10-2017
Given that there is no way to know what files might be present in the directory in which this script might be run, to guarantee that you won't get a syntax error in find if .direct* or .xsession* expand to more than one filename, and to guarantee that all files with the desired names will be matched if either of those patterns match a single filename in the current directory, I think it would be safer to change:
Code:
F2=(! -name .direct*  ! -name .Xauthority  ! -name .xsession*  ! -name .bash_history -print)

in the code Chubler_XL suggested in post #4 to:
Code:
F2=(! -name '.direct*'  ! -name .Xauthority  ! -name '.xsession*'  ! -name .bash_history -print)

(quoting those two filename matching patterns).
 

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	      In  this	case  sux will override XAUTHORITY to the so that xauth does not try to use the original user's .Xauthority file (which it
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	      ple caveats with this method. First, due to the access right issues it's only usable by root. But even then it may not work  if  the
	      .Xauthority  file is accessed via NFS, e.g. if the home directories are on NFS (note that this is quite dangerous already since your
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