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store the output of "find" command in a variable?
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shield kumar
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how to store the output of "find" command in a variable inside a shell script?
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Andrew Monkhouse
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Try:
The variable $FILES will now contain a list of all the files, directories, links ... in your home directory and sub-directories.
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Tim Holloway
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There's also an alternative notation that's common:
FILES=`find . name "*.pdf"`
Note that the delimiter for the command string is the "backtick" character, sometimes known as "left apostrophe". It's not the same thing as the normal (right) aprostrophe. On many keyboards, it's located to the left of the "1" key. In my case, it's on the same key as "~".
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Stefan Wagner
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Tim Holloway wrote:Note that the delimiter for the command string is the "backtick" character, sometimes known as "left apostrophe". It's not the same thing as the normal (right) aprostrophe.
That's one reason why it's deprecated: confused by beginners.
The second reason is, is, it is hard to nest Commands with backticks, but easy with brackets.
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