From: BobGian@U.Washington.edu
To: jeff.holle@verizon.net
Cc: linux-console@vger.kernel.org
Subject: encapulating a find function in a script
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:34:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200401150034.i0F0Y1x17029@trumpet.radonc.washington.edu> (raw)
> I'm having a problem with a simple script I'm trying to develop.
>
> Its name is fgrep and its text is:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> find $1 -name $2 -exec grep -H $3 '{}' ';'
>
> I want to use it like "dgrep 'directory' 'file pattern' 'match text'.
>
> It doesn't match anything because of the $2 parameter. If I replace
> "$2" with "*.cpp", it works.
>
> Can anybody tell me what is wrong and how to fix it?
Try putting double-quotes around the parameters, like:
find $1 -name "$2" -exec grep -H "$3" '{}' ';'
This works for me in a similar script, at least in the csh shell.
-Bob Giansiracusa
next reply other threads:[~2004-01-15 0:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-15 0:34 BobGian [this message]
2004-01-15 1:00 ` encapulating a find function in a script Mike Castle
2004-01-15 1:55 ` Jeffrey Holle
2004-01-16 21:09 ` Jeffrey Holle
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2004-01-16 19:53 BobGian
2004-01-16 20:09 ` Mike Castle
2004-01-15 0:19 Jeffrey Holle
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