Good Afeternoon, I need your help about an script for korn shell. My idea is to run a find with some -name "*pattern*", and save it's result into a variable and then make a loop with the file names founded. I'm devoloping for HP-UX.
I've got this variable, filled dinamically and then that I will use to filter my search. while ... . . . yearFilter='-name "*'$anioUno'['$mesDec']['$mesUni']*"' . . . filter="$filtro -o $yearFilter" done Then, you can see that the $filter variable conteins: >echo $filtro -name "*2010[01][1234567890]*" -o -name "*2011[01][1234567890]*" But when I use $filter in my find statement: list=`find . $filter` echo $list; The variable $list is empty! I think that the ksh cant resolv the quotes in the $filter string. I try using combinations of hard quotes ' and soft quotes " or \" ... but anyone works. Theres another simplier example, with the same problem: >filter='-name "*2010[01][1234567890]*" -o -name "*2011[01][1234567890]*"';list=`find . $filter`; echo $list When I execute this code, its works perfectly: lista=`find . -name "*2010[01][1234567890]*" -o -name "*2011[01][1234567890]*"` I really don't know how to solve this problem, I think I have tried with every combination of quotes, but still have no good results. So if you know how to make it work, please tell me. Thanks in advance, Gonzalo -- Gonzalo Viegas A.
