Re: Use `find' "-printf" predicate inside bash script

[JB]

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> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 16:39:27 -0400
> From: Greg Wooledge greg@wooledge.org
> To: help-bash@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Use `find' "-printf" predicate inside bash script
>
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2021 at 08:24:58PM +0000, JB wrote:
>
> >         #!/bin/bash
> >         args_find='-type f -mtime -1 -delete -printf "deleted file: %f\\n"'
> >         find /tmp/ $args_find
> >
>
> https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/050
>
> tl;dr: put the args in an array, not a string variable. Use an array 
> expansion, not an unquoted string variable expansion.

Had tried that already but it failed because $args_find[@] wasn't quoted. 
Didn't test quoting because $args_find[*] broke `find', so I figured 
double-quoting $args_find[@] would as well. This works:

find /tmp/ "$args_find[@]"

Thanks.

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