Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!eutrc3!wswietse
From: wswietse@eutrc3.UUCP (Wietse Venema)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Help -- this seems simple!
Message-ID: <219@eutrc3.UUCP>
Date: 24 Apr 88 12:58:02 GMT
References: <8932@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: wswietse@eutrc3.UUCP (Wietse Venema)
Organization: Tech. Univ. Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Lines: 24

In article <8932@eddie.MIT.EDU> rich@eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero) writes:
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|      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
| 
| ----------
| 
|      It doesn't print anything!
| Thanx in advance.

Try eval:

    names="-name '*.c' -o -name '*t*'"
    eval find . \( $names \) -print
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