[vox-tech] Bash scripting newbie - need syntax help

[Ken Bloom]

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On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 11:57:13PM -0700, Larry Ozeran wrote:
> Thanks Ken.
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> I had not seen quotes working from the first find suggestion:
> Consider another direction:
> $ find /var/log -iname \*.[0-9].[0-9] -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f

And you attempted:
find -iname \erro*.[1-4].[1-4] -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f

The point of the backslash in these two examples was to supress the
expansion of the * character by using \* to make the shell pass the *
on literally.

The command:
find -iname \erro*.[1-4].[1-4] -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f
would need to be rewritten as:
find -iname erro\*.[1-4].[1-4] -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f

Replacing a character "c" with "\c" is a common way that computer
languages change the meaning of a character to/from something special.
This convention was adopted from C where \n means a newline, \t means
a tab, and \\ means a literal backslash. Thus, in order for the
backslash to have the desired effect, it needs to go immediately
before the *.

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> The quotes are indeed necessary. It worked!
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> Thanks again to everyone who contributed.
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> - Larry
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> On 4/28/04 at 10:39 PM Ken Bloom wrote:
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> >You *need* to put the pattern in quotes, because otherwise the shell
> >will perform wildcard expansion just the same way it was doing for the
> >rm command. Try=20
> >find -iname 'erro*.[1-4].[1-4]' -print0 | xargs -r0 rm -f
> >This should stop the nasty expansion.
> >
> >This was demonstrated implicitly before, as Foo Lim said:
> >> >
> >> >Try using xargs like this:
> >> >
> >> >find . -name "error*" | xargs rm
> >> >
> >> >You can also try doing it through the find command like this:
> >> >
> >> >find . -name "error*" -exec rm \{} \;
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