Question

Code:

echo "Enter the file name"

read fname

find / -name `$fname` -print

Issue: getting error message ‘Command not found’

Enter the file to searched \n

myfile

Check01.sh: line 4: myfile: command not found

I want to search the file name entered by the user at the command prompt.

What is the correct syntax or is there any other way to implement this?

Answer 1

You are using backticks (‘`’), rather than quotation marks.

Your shell is trying to execute the input (myfile) and use this as the input to the find command.

Try this instead:

echo "Enter the file name:";
read fname;
find / -name "$fname" -print