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dewillepl

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Registered: 2016-02-12

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Bash - problem with finding file

Hi guys,

System can't find a file using command "find" when searched filename contains square bracket  [xyz] (can't find when close bracket exist)  ie. find /path -type f -size +1M -iname "*file.name.1.2.3-4ABC[xyz]*" I can find when "*file.name.1.2.3-4ABC[xyz*"

Does "find" command can handle that ?

Thanks

ewaller

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Re: Bash - problem with finding file

Escape the [ and ].  Enter them as \[ and \]

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dewillepl

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Re: Bash - problem with finding file

apologies, i forgot to mention my searched filename is variable $filename (result of other function) and because of that i can't modify this string

EmilyShepherd

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Registered: 2016-03-20

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Re: Bash - problem with finding file

apologies, i forgot to mention my searched filename is variable $filename (result of other function) and because of that i can't modify this string

It is possible to modify variables in Bash:

filename=${filename/[/\\[}
filename=${filename/]/\\]}

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dewillepl

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Registered: 2016-02-12

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Re: Bash - problem with finding file

It's not working unfortunately, but i fixed my issue by using sed when generating variables.

Thanks

Steef435

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Registered: 2013-08-29

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Re: Bash - problem with finding file

Can't you just put quotes around the variable? E.g. "$filename" instead of $filename.