[CentOS] stupid bash question

On 16/08/12 08:19, Craig White wrote:
> the relevant snippet is...
>
> NAME="*.mov" cd $IN if test -n "$(find . -maxdepth 1 -name $NAME
> -print -quit)"
>
The problem is the outermost double quotes in the "$(...)" expression
and figuring out how to pass the appropriate quotes into the subshell 
created by the $(). One trick is to let the outer shell do the 
interpolation first.

The following script may be informative:

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#!/bin/bash

NAME="*.mov"
echo $NAME
echo "$NAME"

echo $(echo $NAME)
echo $(echo "$NAME")
echo $(echo \"$NAME\")
echo $(echo '$NAME')

echo "$(echo $NAME)"
echo "$(echo "$NAME")"
echo "$(echo \"$NAME\")"
echo "$(echo '$NAME')"

if test -n "$(find . -name "$NAME")"
then
     echo FOUND IT
fi
==========================================

Hope this helps,

Kal
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