I am trying to make a script so that I can give command with variable number of arguments myfind one two three and it finds all files in the folder, then applies grep -i one then grep -i two, and grep -i three and so on.
I tried following code:
#! /bin/bash
FULLARG="find . | "
for arg in "$@"
do
FULLARG=$FULLARG" grep -i "$arg" | "
done
echo $FULLARG
$FULLARG
However, though the command is created but it is not working and giving following error:
$ ./myfind one two three
find . | grep -i one | grep -i two | grep -i three |
find: unknown predicate `-i'
Where is the problem and how can it be solved?
>Solution :
You could store the result of find . and keep filtering that out till you have command line arguments:
#!/bin/bash
result="$(find .)"
for arg in "$@"
do
result=$(echo "$result" | grep -i "${arg}")
done
echo "$result"