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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Passing variables to functtion - $@ is correct but $1 is not Post 303010096 by Chubler_XL on Tuesday 26th of December 2017 04:11:22 PM
Old 12-26-2017
As you have spaces within your file or directory names bash word splitting is separating the filename into separate arguments. This could become even more troublesome if the paths contain newline or quote characters.

I'm a little unsure why you need to use eval at all here, but I will assume you are trying to do some sort of tricky expansion of the find arguments and will leave it alone for now. The solution could be much simpler (and safer) without eval being involved.

In this solution I am utilizing the find -print0 option with xargs -0. This is not available on all *NIX* flavors and may cause you some portability issues.

Code:
...
CMD="find $MY_HOME/Desktop -print0"
echo "COMMAND : $CMD"
eval $CMD | xargs -0 -n 1 -I {} bash -c 'SEARCH_IN_CURRENT_ITEM "$@"' _ {}

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shells(4)							   File Formats 							 shells(4)

NAME

       shells - shell database

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shells

DESCRIPTION

       The shells file contains a list of the shells on the system. Applications use this file to determine whether a shell is valid. See getuser-
       shell(3C). For each shell a single line should be present, consisting of the shell's path, relative to root.

       A hash mark (#) indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by  the  routines
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       /bin/sh, /bin/tcsh, /bin/zsh, /sbin/jsh, /sbin/sh, /usr/bin/bash, /usr/bin/csh, /usr/bin/jsh, /usr/bin/ksh, /usr/bin/ksh93, /usr/bin/pfcsh,
       /usr/bin/pfksh, /usr/bin/pfsh, and /usr/bin/sh, /usr/bin/tcsh, /usr/bin/zsh, and /usr/sfw/bin/zsh. /etc/shells overrides the default list.

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FILES

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