Re: Why wouldn't "stringing" of an input parameter using an array work? ...

[Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com>]

On 6/8/23, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> Yes.  Use an array.
> kate "${_KSX_AR[@]}" &

 I tried the same kind of magic with find, but it didn't work. I don't
want to have to have to hard code the statement into find. Any way to
work around this?:

_DIR_BRNX="/media/user/60320G593EB7250F"

_X_SUB_DIRS_AR=(
"${_DIR_BRNX}/org/archive"
"${_DIR_BRNX}/com/pdffiles"
)

_X_SUB_DIRS_AR_L=${#_X_SUB_DIRS_AR[@]}
echo "// __ \$_X_SUB_DIRS_AR_L: |${_X_SUB_DIRS_AR_L}|"

###
_DT=$(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)

_SFX=$(basename ${_DIR_BRNX})
_ERR_LOG="${_SFX}_${_DT}_errors.log"
_TM_LOG="${_SFX}_${_DT}_tm.log"

_TMPFL="${_SFX}_$(mktemp "${_DT}".XXXXXX)_temp.ls"
echo "// __ \$_TMPFL: |${_TMPFL}|"

time ( find "${_DIR_BRNX}" -path "${_X_SUB_DIRS_AR[@]}" -prune -type f
-printf '%s|%d|%P|' -exec file --brief {} \; 1> "${_TMPFL}" 2>
"${_ERR_LOG}" ) > "${_TM_LOG}" 2>&1