Re: Bug in my shell script

["Rodolfo J. Paiz" <rpaiz gold guate net>]

It just so happens that I'm barely learning this, so some questions of my 
own included here:

At 3/29/01 10:15 PM +0200, you wrote:
> ---
> #!/bin/sh -x

What does the -x do?

> if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
>         echo "Usage: $0 <expression>";
>         exit;
> fi

Thanks; I didn't know how to do that. :)

> echo "find /home/guests/jjans -type d -name '*"$1"*' -exec 'sed s/*.sts//g'
> \;" | sh

You have 'sed s/*.sts//g'
                ^

Why is that dot there? I would have thought that * for wildcard would not 
need the dot.


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Rodolfo J. Paiz
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