Hi all! 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. Here comes a boiled down example of the problem I'm having. Let's say there are 4 files in the current directory: ./aa ./aaa ./bb ./bbb 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. Any suggestions will be appreciated, Sasha
