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edited May 2, 2020 at 14:23

You can substitute like this:

$ SEARCH='*mp4' $ find / -name "$(echo $SEARCH)"

This will pipe the output of the command into a variable and do things like this:

$ find / -name "$(grep XYZ | cut -f2)"

You can see more about Command Substitution.

You can substitute like this:

$ SEARCH='*mp4' $ find / -name "$(echo $SEARCH)"

You can substitute like this:

$ SEARCH='*mp4' $ find / -name "$(echo $SEARCH)"

This will pipe the output of the command into a variable and do things like this:

$ find / -name "$(grep XYZ | cut -f2)"

You can see more about Command Substitution.

answered May 2, 2020 at 14:17

You can substitute like this:

$ SEARCH='*mp4' $ find / -name "$(echo $SEARCH)"