Shell Programming and Scripting

All,
I have a shell script which executes the below command

find $1 -name $2 -print > ${Backup}/FileFind.txt

I have $2 sometimes coming with the below values.
.[a-z]*

When I go to the log after the execution of the script, .[a-z]* gets expanded to .developer.adm instead of searching for all the . files like .profile, .odbc etc. How do I comeover this issue?

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Try using double-quotes...

Code:

find "$1" -name "$2" -print > ${Backup}/FileFind.txt

I tried using double quotes around the variables. But did not help

That would suggest that $1 and $2 have already been expanded by the shell. Try adding double quotes when you call the script, e.g...

Code:

script.sh "$PARAM1" "$PARAM2"

i think if you have this:

Code:

# ./myscript.sh firstarg ".[a-z]*"

your second argument would have been expanded into the various files with that extension. you can try with this example in your script

Code:

#!/bin/bash
echo $2

so to overcome this if you want to use find, you may need generate a string to become "-name <> -o -name <> -o -name <> ..."...
that's what i think.

The string need to be quoted both on the command line and in the script to be used as is.