Find in command substitution: Empty result inside while, result in command line

Question

I have this bash script to find files recovered by PhotoRec (files I know are there, but because of their number I can't locate them one by one), but the find command doesn't return any results, if I run one by one the script lines, (except the while loop) every single one works... except find. I'm using SystemRescueCd, so I changed zsh to bash, but even so the strange behavior doesn't change.

Here is the bash script doesn't work as it should:

#!/bin/bash

findpath="/media/samsung/recup_dir.2/"
echo "FIND PATH: $findpath"

fileslistfile="/media/windows2/photorec-created-files.txt"
rm -rf "$fileslistfile"
touch "$fileslistfile"
echo "FILES LIST FILE: $fileslistfile"
echo "* * * * *"

while IFS= read -r line; do
    echo "LINE: $line"
    #echo "$line" >> "$fileslistfile"

    uncreatedfile=$(basename "$line")
    echo "UNCREATED FILE: $uncreatedfile"

    # this command doesn't return any result
    createdfile=$(find "$findpath" -name "$uncreatedfile" -print)
    echo "CREATED FILE: $createdfile"

    if [ "$createdfile" != "" ]; then
        echo "$createdfile" >> "$fileslistfile"
    else
        echo "$line" >> "$fileslistfile"
    fi
done < "/root/photorec-uncreated-files.txt"

exit 1

Here is the sequence of commands executed in CLI, that works OK:

findpath="/media/samsung/recup_dir.1/";
echo "FIND PATH: $findpath";

line="/media/samsung/recup_dir.1/inode_733583/R Jota - Pantomima-kCcgjM55IqA.mp4";
echo "LINE: $line";

uncreatedfile=$(basename "$line");
echo "UNCREATED FILE: $uncreatedfile";

# this command returns a result
createdfile=$(find "$findpath" -name "$uncreatedfile" -print);
echo "CREATED FILE: $createdfile";

if [ "$createdfile" = "" ]; 
then echo "FILE UNCREATED $line"; 
else echo "FILE CREATED $createdfile"; 
fi;

I played around with IFS variable in the while loop to IFS=$'\n' and with the -print and -print0 params in find (even dropping both), the result is always the same...

So. why the same command substitution behave differently? what is missing in the bash script?

Answer 1

The source file photorec-uncreated-files.txt has all the lines like this:

Can't create file /media/samsung/recup_dir.1/inode_733583/R Jota - Pantomima-kCcgjM55IqA.mp4:

with the sentence "Can't create ilfe " at the beggining and a colon at the end. (Usually I delete those both using ViM, but seems that I've been forgetting to do that)

That's bad because $line is the variable used by $uncreatedfile to get the basename of the full path, which returns nothing, which is used then as a value of the param -name of the find command, which obviously returns nothing too, and that's why find never returns any result inside a bash script.