Help -- this seems simple!

[Wietse Venema]

In article <8932 at eddie.MIT.EDU> rich at eddie.MIT.EDU (Richard Caloggero) writes:
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|      Can anyone tell me why this script doesn't print anything?
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| #!/bin/sh
| set -vx
| names="-name '*.c' -o -name '*t*'"
| find . \( $names \) -print
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|      It doesn't print anything!
| Thanx in advance.

Try eval:

    names="-name '*.c' -o -name '*t*'"
    eval find . \( $names \) -print
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