Dan Track wrote:
I was writing this little bash script using find and I came along this difference from using the same command on the command line and in bash script. Basically on the command line I have to type: /usr/bin/find /opt/yum/packages/ -mtime +2 -a \( -regex .*.rpm -o -regex .*.hdr \) -exec ls -lrt {} \; whereas , in a bash script I have to type: /usr/bin/find /opt/yum/packages/ -mtime +2 -a ( -regex .*.rpm -o -regex .*.hdr ) -exec ls -lrt {} ; As you can see I need to escape parenthesis and semi-colons on the command line but I don't need to do that in a bash script. Is there a reason for this?
How are you running this script? I would expect the first version to work on the command-line and in a script, and the second version not to work at all...
Paul.