On Sat 05 Mar 2016 at 05:23:55 (+0000), Albretch Mueller wrote: > find works significantly faster when you bag various search patterns รก la: > > -iname '*.ko' -or -iname '*.bin' -or -iname '*.txt' > > but, how could you do that using a batch strategy and setting a > variable with many "-[i]name ... -or -[i]name ..." cases? > > line-by-line strategies are too slow > > lbrtchx
Eh? local CMD="command -opt value ..." loop CMD="$CMD -more options ..." ... # Having built the full command: echo $CMD #eval $CMD Is that the sort of thing? Quoting can become a bit of a challenge. As shown, you'll probably need to echo $CMD rather than eval $CMD while you test whether it's all put together right. Cheers, David.