How to run variadic utility from bash?

Question

linux

Good afternoon
I am writing a wrapper over find. I make a list of "include" and "exclude" paths (we check and exclude accordingly).
The input to my script is a list of keys -i path1 -i path2 ( -e path1 -e path2 )
Accordingly, I want to run find . -path 'path1' -prune -o -path 'path2' -prune -o -print
But I don't know how to make find be called each time with a different number of arguments
Please help me solve this problem
Thank you

Answer 1

The most convenient way is through getopts

FINDOPTS=''

while getopts "i:e:" opt; do
    case $opt in
        e) FINDOPTS=$FINDOPTS" --exclude $OPTARG ";;
        i) FINDOPTS=$FINDOPTS" --include $OPTARG ";;
    esac
done

echo $FINDOPTS

$ ./getopts.sh -i path1 -i path2 -i path3 -e path4 -e path5 
--include path1 --include path2 --include path3 --exclude path4 --exclude path5

This is an abstract way, adapt the arguments to suit your needs.

Answer 2

Push arguments into a variable?