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Old 03-20-2010
Find script

Hello, as I'm doing my first steps in Linux I'm trying to create bash file
that will search file\s in folders by using the Find command.

can u help me with the script?

it should be :

Code:
myfind.sh [-d <start dir>] [-name <target> ]

thanx!

Last edited by radoulov; 03-20-2010 at 05:34 PM.. Reason: Added code tags!
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Old 03-21-2010
What code have you written so far? Have you tried getopts?
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Old 03-21-2010
I just started the only thing that I did is to receive the parameters.
can u give me please some direction or example code how to imitate the 'find' function with getops?!
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