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I would like to create a script on SUSE Enterprise Linux, it first asks for a string (representing a date) and then search for all files in a certain directory which contains the string in its filename. If there is an empty input, todays date should be used.

I now have this:

read -p "Send files from date (MM-DD-YYYY) : " fromdate if [[ -z ${fromdate// } ]] then echo "Empty input" fromdate=$(date +%m-%d-%Y) fi echo "Input: $fromdate" cd /path/to/directory while IFS= read -r -d '' file ; do echo "$file" done < <(find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*$fromdate*" -print0)

When I enter a date, it works fine, for empty input, I get an error:

fromdate: command not found

The input is still empty, and all files are displayed. What could be my mistake? Should I use the 'let'-command?

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  • Why not just use find directly? Commented Nov 18, 2015 at 15:09
  • I assume that error is coming from line 5? Can you comment it out and re run and confirm the error goes away? My guess is you have a space between fromdate and =. Commented Nov 18, 2015 at 15:16
  • I would also suggest trimming the spaces separately. You seem to check for spaces, but use the string including spaces if it was non-empty? Commented Nov 18, 2015 at 15:18
  • Did you perhaps edit this script on a Windows box, then copy it over to a Linux or Unix box without converting EOLs? Commented Nov 18, 2015 at 16:17

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This works for me (but on CentOS 7.1). Did I miss something?

read -p "Send files from date (MM-DD-YYYY) : " fromdate if [[ -z ${fromdate// } ]] then echo "Empty input" fromdate=$(date +%m-%d-%Y) fi echo "Input: $fromdate" find /path/to/directory -maxdepth 1 -name "*$fromdate*"
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