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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Another Find Problem Post 63113 by sethkor on Tuesday 22nd of February 2005 06:35:20 PM
Old 02-22-2005
Data Another Find Problem
HI All,
I am having a bit of trouble using the find command in my shell (korn) script.
I was hoping someone could help me.

I am trying to build up a dynamic find command based on some parameters.

When I execute the command I get the following error:
find: incomplete statement

I have attached a stripped down version of the code which has the problem.

Any help would be apprecieated.
Thanks

if [ -n "$opt_file" ]
then
cat_str='\| nice -n 15 cat > '${opt_file}
else
cat_str='\| more'
fi

if [ -n "$opt_operator" ]
then
grep_str='\|nice -n 15 grep '${grep_str}

fi

if [ "$opt_enddate" -eq "$opt_startdate" ]
then
theExecStr="nice -n 15 find . -name \*.gz -exec nice -n 15 gunzip -c {} \; ${grep_str}${cat_str}"

$theExecStr
fi
 

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shar

SHAR(1) 						    BSD General Commands Manual 						   SHAR(1)

NAME

     shar -- create a shell archive of files

SYNOPSIS

     shar file ...

DESCRIPTION

     The shar command writes a sh(1) shell script to the standard output which will recreate the file hierarchy specified by the command line op-
     erands.  Directories will be recreated and must be specified before the files they contain (the find(1) utility does this correctly).

     The shar command is normally used for distributing files by ftp(1) or mail(1).

EXAMPLES

     To create a shell archive of the program ls(1) and mail it to Rick:

	   cd ls
	   shar `find . -print` | mail -s "ls source" rick

     To recreate the program directory:

	   mkdir ls
	   cd ls
	   ...
	   <delete header lines and examine mailed archive>
	   ...
	   sh archive

SEE ALSO

     compress(1), mail(1), tar(1), uuencode(1)

HISTORY

     The shar command appeared in 4.4BSD.

BUGS

     The shar command makes no provisions for special types of files or files containing magic characters.  The shar command cannot handle files
     without a newline ('
') as the last character.

     It is easy to insert trojan horses into shar files.  It is strongly recommended that all shell archive files be examined before running them
     through sh(1).  Archives produced using this implementation of shar may be easily examined with the command:

	   egrep -v '^[X#]' shar.file

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