Find command result, won't write to the output

Question

I have below script, Need find all PDF associate pages in website . PDF_Search_File.txt content the URL of the PDF file

Example : /static/pdf/pdf1.pdf
          /static/pdf/pdf2.pdf

But find result not writing to the output file.there is and issue below line

find . -type f -exec grep -l '$name' '{}' \; >>output_pdf_new.txt

Any information will help.

#!/bin/bash
filename="PDF_Search_File.txt"
while read -r line
do
        name="$line"
                echo "*******pdf******** - $name\n" >>output_pdf_new.txt
        find . -type f -exec grep -l '$name' '{}' \; >>output_pdf_new.txt
                echo "*******pdf******** - $name\n" >>output_pdf_new.txt
done < "$filename"

No this not working ether , I have tested

chamara
– chamara

2018-06-14 04:06:46 +00:00
Commented Jun 14, 2018 at 4:06 — chamara
– chamara, Commented Jun 14, 2018 at 4:06

asatsi · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-12 10:14:41Z

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The variable $name should be in double quotes "$name" instead of single quotes. This is typical shell behaviour dealing with single and double quotes.

answered Jun 12, 2018 at 10:14

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silveiralexf · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-14 10:31:49Z

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the problem is that since your redirecting the output to a file echo is not displaying the text, you can use tee -a to do both, for instance:

#!/bin/bash
filename="PDF_Search_File.txt"
while read -r line
do
        name="$line"
        echo "*******pdf******** - $name" | tee -a output_pdf_new.txt
        find . -type f -exec grep -l "$name" '{}' \; | tee -a output_pdf_new.txt
        echo "*******pdf******** - ${name}" | tee -a output_pdf_new.txt
done < "$filename"

edited Jun 14, 2018 at 10:31

answered Jun 12, 2018 at 10:41

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chamara Over a year ago

I can see the echo output in output text file , problem is find result not writing to output file look like below . /Search_pdf.sh *******pdf******** - /static/pdf/pdf1.pdf\n *******pdf******** - /static/pdf/pdf1.pdf\n ./Search_pdf.sh *******pdf******** - /static/pdf/pdf2.pdf\n *******pdf******** - /static/pdf/pdf2.pdf\n ./Search_pdf.sh *******pdf******** - /static/pdf/pdf3.pdf\n *******pdf******** - /static/pdf/pdf3.pdf\n

silveiralexf Over a year ago

also added the variables inside the double quotes as suggested on other comments

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