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I changed my code as follows

#!/bin/ksh

set -- "-not" "-name" "*.xom" "-a" "-not" "-name" "*.sh" "-a" "-not" "-name" "*.pl"

/usr/local/bin/find path/to/files $@ > FileList.txt

It is...

Thank you so much. I was putting my eval in the wrong place.

I'm not able to use a variable in my find rule. It's essentially being ignored.

I'm trying to store a list of file types to ignore in a variable.

This is the relevant code.


#!/bin/ksh
...

BRILLIANT!

Actually it wasn't a tarball but a regular .zip file so I had to modify your advice accordingly. I went with this and it worked:

VARIABLE=`unzip -tlv $PATH | cut -d"/" -f1 | cut...

I tried piping an unzip test to a find but that didn't work. I also tried grep but am basically at a loss as to how to search through the zip file.

Mike

I'm running an sh shell that is unzipping some zip files that have a directory structure on them.

Is there a way I can find the top level directory in the zip file and assign that to a variable?
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ls -lh worked wonderfully, thanks.

I didn't show the code for copying and stuff because that was working.

Thanks again!

Mike

I'm having a problem with a bash shell

The shell is running through a list of zip filenames, copying the zip files to another location and adding a file to the zip files.

All this is working...

That worked. Thanks so much, everyone!

Mike

I tried that as well as some variations earlier, but the test error message won't stop popping up in the tests that I run. I get a paragraph about the end of central directory not found. It executes...

I'm creating a bsh shell to unzip a file from one directory into another. The directory that holds the zip files has zip files constantly being added to it, so I am testing it before it does the...