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From: rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Help -- this seems simple!
Message-ID: <8932@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 22 Apr 88 19:48:38 GMT
Organization: MIT EE/CS Computer Facility, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 42
Keywords: bin/sh (yuk)



     Can anyone tell me why this script doesn't print anything?

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#!/bin/sh
set -vx
names="-name '*.c' -o -name '*t*'"
find . \( $names \) -print

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     It doesn't print anything!
Thanx in advance.

----- Results of running the above script ... -----
Script started on Fri Apr 22 15:40:09 1988
% 
% test.sh^U
chmod a+x test.sh
% test.sh
names="-name '*.c' -o -name '*t*'"
names=-name '*.c' -o -name '*t*'
find . \( $names \) -print
+ find . ( -name '*.c' -o -name '*t*' ) -print 

% exit
% 
script done on Fri Apr 22 15:41:02 1988



     Could you mail me the answers since I don't
read these groups.



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