[bug #20245] bad variable substitution?

[Miguel Ángel]

URL:
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                 Summary: bad variable substitution?
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: slap
            Submitted on: Saturday 06/23/07 at 15:29
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: slap
        Originator Email: 
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.2.28
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

Hello, I've written a script that performs something like this:

mask="-name '$2'"

find $1 $mask -type f -print0

When I invoke the script this way:

./script . "*txt"

There is no output (thought there are *txt files into directory .)

Is this a bug?

Thank's in advance.




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