Problem with parameter 2

[eustathi]

Hello again

I cant understand why this is working fine

#!/bin/bash
#line counter
declare -i total=0
for file in $(find  $PWD/*.txt -print)
do
total=$(($total + $(awk 'END { print NR}' $file )))
done
echo $total

and this not for: sh script.sh *.txt

#!/bin/bash
#line counter
declare -i total=0
for file in $(find  $PWD/"$1" -print)
do
total=$(($total + $(awk 'END { print NR}' $file )))
done
echo $total

 

[feherke]

Hi

[tt]sh script.sh [red]*.txt[/red]
[red]^[/red][/tt]
Because the shell expands this before running the command, so your script will receive in [tt]$1[/tt] the first element resulted from the expansion.

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[p5wizard]

so

sh script.sh '*.txt'

should do it...

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[eustathi]

I tried this :

bash-3.00$ sh countsrc.sh '*.txt'
find: /u8/stud2004/eustathi/*.txt: No such file or directory
0

 

[p5wizard]

Alter script a bit:

#!/bin/bash
#line counter
declare -i total=0
for file in $(find  $PWD -type f -name "$1" -print)
do
total=$(($total + $(awk 'END { print NR}' $file )))
done
echo $total

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[stefanwagner]

find ./ -type f -name "*.txt" -exec cat {} \; | wc -l

should do the same.

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