Re: [OT] shell quoting [SOLVED]

[Alexander Kirillov <nevis2us infoline su>]

> >  I need to compare two different versions of a source tree
> >  excluding certain directories and print out some statistics
> >  on the files which have been changed, removed or added.
>
> diff -urN -x 'bb*' old new | diffstat

diff won't help much as I need an explicit list
of new/added files in a tree of ~10K files.
Besides -x only works on basenames.

> >  and I want to exclude all paths starting with ./bb
> >  This one is easy:
> >
> >  find . ! -path './bb*'
> >
> >  Now I want to make it into a generic script:
> >
> >  DIR=.
> >  OPT='! -path $DIR/bb*'
> >  find $DIR $OPT
> >
> >  $DIR and * within OPT are essential
> >  and no matter what I've tried I can't get the parameter expansion right.
>
> Use arrays:
> declare -a options
>
> options=( '!' '-path' './bb*')
> options+=( '-type' 'f')
> ...
>
> And then:
> find $DIR "${options[ ]}"

This one's interesting.
Thanks Luciano!

DIR=.
OPT=('!' '-path' $DIR'/bb*')
find $DIR "${OPT[ ]}"