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find problems "invalid predicate"
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| Can someone please maybe spot why the following script fails on the 2nd
invocation of find?
I simplified it somewhat to narrow down where the problem is. I actually
want to use the 2nd variation as I build the "exclude" list from a file.
I don't see the problem.
Thanks for any help.
Jim
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#!/bin/ksh
set -x
find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -not \( -name hello \)
exclude="-name hello"
find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -not \(" $exclude "\)
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Here are the results:
+ find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -not ( -name hello )
../xqnet.o
../setp
...... more files
+ exclude=-name hello
+ find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -not ( -name hello )
find: invalid predicate `( -name hello )'
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| Ed Morton 2005-03-26, 6:05 pm |
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Jim wrote:
> Can someone please maybe spot why the following script fails on the 2nd
> invocation of find?
> I simplified it somewhat to narrow down where the problem is. I actually
> want to use the 2nd variation as I build the "exclude" list from a file.
> I don't see the problem.
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> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jim
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> #!/bin/ksh
> set -x
> find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -not \( -name hello \)
> exclude="-name hello"
> find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -not \(" $exclude "\)
Try it without the quotes:
find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -not \( $exclude \)
Ed.
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| I'll be darned. Sometimes it just takes another pair of eyes. I was trying
to guarantee that there would be spaces on each side of the "nots".
Thanks,
"Ed Morton" <morton@lsupcaemnt.com> wrote in message
news:3PednUa2z_tjTdjfRVn-gg@comcast.com...
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> Jim wrote:
actually[vbcol=seagreen]
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> Try it without the quotes:
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> find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -not \( $exclude \)
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> Ed.
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| Bill Marcum 2005-03-27, 2:47 am |
| On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:36:34 -0500, Jim
<j1mw_no_spam_plz@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I'll be darned. Sometimes it just takes another pair of eyes. I was trying
> to guarantee that there would be spaces on each side of the "nots".
>
By putting the spaces inside quotes, you cause the shell to not see them
as separators, so \(" $exclude "\) is seen as one argument instead of
three.
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--
"Irrationality is the square root of all evil"
-- Douglas Hofstadter
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| I'll be darned. Sometimes it just takes another pair of eyes. I was trying
to guarantee that there would be spaces on each side of the "nots".
Thanks,
"Ed Morton" <morton@lsupcaemnt.com> wrote in message
news:3PednUa2z_tjTdjfRVn-gg@comcast.com...
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> Jim wrote:
actually[vbcol=seagreen]
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> Try it without the quotes:
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> find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -not \( $exclude \)
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> Ed.
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| Bill Marcum 2005-03-30, 7:55 am |
| On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:36:34 -0500, Jim
<j1mw_no_spam_plz@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I'll be darned. Sometimes it just takes another pair of eyes. I was trying
> to guarantee that there would be spaces on each side of the "nots".
>
By putting the spaces inside quotes, you cause the shell to not see them
as separators, so \(" $exclude "\) is seen as one argument instead of
three.
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>
--
"Irrationality is the square root of all evil"
-- Douglas Hofstadter
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