At 12:28 AM +0400 9/20/07, Alexander Kirillov wrote: >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, I couldn't get * to expand later either. Backslashes didn't help. What I finally did was like: opt1='! -path $dir/bb<wild>' opt = `echo $opt1 | sed 's|<wild>|*|'` find $dir $opt -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>