Re: bash variables

[T o n g <mlist4suntong@yahoo.com>]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:21:27 -0800, Mike McClain wrote:

> the following command lists (along with everything else)
>  2 *.deb files in /home/mike/
> 
> root@/deb40a:~> FIND1="-maxdepth 1 -type f -print -name '*'"; \
>     GREP="-v '\.\(deb\|gz\|tgz\|bz2\|tbz\|zip\)$'"; \ find /home/mike/
>     $FIND1 | grep $GREP ;
> 
> while without variables;
> root@/deb40a:~> find /home/mike/ -maxdepth 1 -type f -print -name '*' |
>     grep -v '\.\(deb\|gz\|tgz\|bz2\|tbz\|zip\)$'
> does not list the 2 *.deb files.

Shouldn't be. Are you sure you are posting exactly as what you are doing 
without omitting anything else?

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