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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users AIX find with Variables Post 303043484 by cokedude on Wednesday 29th of January 2020 01:23:13 PM
Old 01-29-2020
Quote:
Originally Posted by RudiC
is not too good a starting point for an analysis.



Yes - start with a decent request - details like misbehaviour, error messages, file / directory structures, input data, execution logs, ...

This the only output I get. Normally my version of find does not give any output when it does not find something so I added the execute option. Thats why it was so difficult to figure out.

Code:
find: 0652-083 Cannot execute :: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
find: 0652-083 Cannot execute :: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.

I figured it out. There were several problems. Since I am using a variable I can not use single quotes so I switched to double quotes. This created a new problem. Asterisks do not behave as expected in double quotes. It does not matter if you use a one, two, three, or four backslashes.

I have seen seen from a lot of trial and error this works.

Code:
for i in `cat file`;     do find / -type f -name "$i"\* -exec ls -l {} + ; done
for i in `cat file`;     do find / -type f -name $i\* -exec ls -l {} + ; done

This did not work. Is there a way to use an asterisks in double quotes with find?

Code:
for i in `cat file`;     do find / -type f -name "$i\*" -exec ls -l {} + ; done
for i in `cat file`;     do find / -type f -name "$i\\*" -exec ls -l {} + ; done
for i in `cat file`;     do find / -type f -name "$i\\\*" -exec ls -l {} + ; done
for i in `cat file`;     do find / -type f -name "$i\\\\*" -exec ls -l {} + ; done

 

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