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value of $VAR already contains backtick and/or single quote inside. How to handle it? How to properly pass $VAR to program? [duplicate]
$ bash --version
GNU bash, versione 5.2.26(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
I don't know how to deal with $VAR when its value inside contains single quote (') and/or backtick (`).
I'm in the need of ...
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Does + need to be escaped in find commands?
I have the following code in bash and I wonder on whether I can get rid of \+ and simply use +
find "$fdir" \
-type f -name "*.org" -o -name ...
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How to recursively set directory permissions with a find that lacks -exec?
My Qnap NAS is cursed with a find command that lacks the -exec parameter, so I have to pipe to something. The shell is: GNU bash, version 3.2.57(2)-release-(arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf)
I'm trying to ...
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How to move all the files with specific prefix of the directory? [duplicate]
I have a following directory structure (assume no two files have the same name):
Apple1
apple1.jpg
apple2.jpg
Apple2
apple3.jpg
apple4.jpg
Apple3
Tomato
Peach
And i would like to move one ...
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-perm flag in find
I'm trying to wrap my head around this command:
find /home/ -type d \( -perm -0002 -a ! -perm -1000 \) 2>/dev/null
I understand that it's going to look in the 'home' directory for all directories ...
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Single quote problem in "sh -c" script launched from "find"
Now I am writing a script for a long time, but lately this problem has drives me crazy. I tried everything but couldn't solve it.
find . -iname "*.mp4" -type f -exec ffmpeg -i "{}" -c:a "$ACODEC" -c:...
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Find: Substitute expression with a variable
$ find -name "Bik*"
./Biking
./Biking/Unsync/Biking.md.~6~
./Biking/Rendered/Biking.gen.html
./Biking/Biking.md
Now when I substitute expression with a variable as follows:
$ a='-name "Bik*"'
$ ...
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Why doesn't $() expand properly?
I want to play all the .mp3 files within a directory using vlc, so I do something like this:
vlc $(find ~/Documents/music -name "*.mp3" -exec "echo \"{}\"" \;)
The issue is that I get "vlc: unknown ...
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Find not working as expected with space in directory
I have a script calling this
find "/mnt/Data/Shared/$1" -type d -exec bash -c 'fixperm "'${1}'" "fd" "$0"' {} \;
$1 is a directory, when the name contains no spaces it works, when there is a space ...
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find: unknown predicate `-p'
find /log/ -mtime -31 -type f -name ""*data.txt"" -printf ""cp -p %p /Backup/%Td/\n"" | sh
I am trying to set up this command in a cron job and it's complaining about unknown predicate -p. Not really ...
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Commands Differences Using Quotations (Find)
I was reading the man page of find and I found myself confused with the following commands. What is the difference between one and its corresponding one.
What is the difference between the following ...
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Escaping problem with find command
I need to find everything in a directory, excluding certain subdirectories and files. My script needs to call this as a function:
function findStuff() {
# define exclusions
ignore_dirs=("$1" "*...
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Using a bash loop to run a program that uses single-quotes in the command line, where single-quotes nullify the bash script's intention
The problem:
I want to be able to run a program within a bash loop over each .fna file in a directory, but I also want the name of the output file to have the same file name (without the extension), ...
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variable `-name` primary to `find`
I am trying to construct a compound -name primary for the find command from an arbitrary number of strings in an array, of the form \( -name ${a[0]} -or -name ${a[1]} -or -name ${a[2]} ... \). While ...
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How to search for a file by name pattern and execute a command in its directory?
What the following command should do, is to search for all invoice pdf files and check if there is a thumbnail file inside the same directory. If not, it should print the directory. Later I will add a ...
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