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Old 08-20-2010
Help - Using Find command on dynamic files on KSH
Hi Forum.

When I run the following find command, I get the desired results:

find . \( -name a.out -o -name '*.o' -o -name 'core' \) -type f -ls

I want for my script to dynamically calculate and assign a variable var1 to contain all the files that I want to search instead of hard-coding.

For ex:

var1="-name a.out -o -name '*.o' -o -name 'core'"

but when trying to execute the following command :

find . "\(" "$var1" "\)" -type f -ls

I'm getting the following error:

find: 0652-017 -name a.out -o -name '*.o' -o -name 'core' is not a valid option.

Please help.

Thank you.
# 2  
Old 08-20-2010
Something like this,

Code:
var1='-name "a.out" -o -name "*.o" -o -name "core"'
eval find . "\(" $var1 "\)" -type f -ls

# 3  
Old 08-20-2010
sorry - tried your suggestion but got the same error:

find: 0652-017 -name a.out -o -name '*.o' -o -name 'core' is not a valid option.
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