Help with quotes in find statement in ksh script

[Gonzalo Viegas Aurelio <viegas.utn@gmail.com>]

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 ...

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yearFilter='-name  "*'$anioUno'['$mesDec']['$mesUni']*"'

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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

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