Passing argument on find command

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi,
I'm trying to pass the variable in the find command like below

a=log.20111114
find /apps/file3_logs/env3/ -name '$a' -exec ls -lrt {} \;

but it's not working
thanks in advance.

Regards
Thelak

2

Use double-quotes - with single quotes the shell won't do variable substitution.

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3

Single quotes are hard - they do not allow a substitution inside. Try double quotes " instead.

4

thanks for both suggestion.