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On 27/2/2011, at 6:30am, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Sunday 27 February 2011 03:46:48 Stroller wrote: |
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>> On 26/2/2011, at 5:33pm, Grant wrote: |
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>>> find /my/folder -type f -name '*foo*.txt' |
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> He didn't quote the search string and neither did the grandparent. Find will |
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> do what he's asking and it's most unlikely that's what he wants. |
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> Grant, you have |
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> find /my/folder -name foo*.txt |
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> but you want |
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> find /my/folder -name 'foo*.txt' |
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AIUI using `find /my/folder -name foo*.txt` (i.e. unquoted) the shell will pass the * to find if it can't expand it itself. |
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So as long as he doesn't have a foo*.txt in his current working directory then either command should work fine. |
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$ ls my/folder/ |
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foo.txt |
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$ ls foo.txt |
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foo.txt |
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$ rm foo.txt |
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$ find my/folder -name foo*.txt |
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my/folder/foo.txt |
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$ ls fo*.txt |
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ls: cannot access fo*.txt: No such file or directory |
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$ find my/folder -name fo*.txt |
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my/folder/foo.txt |
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$ find my/folder -name *fo*.txt |
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my/folder/foo.txt |
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$ find my/folder -name '*fo*.txt' |
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my/folder/foo.txt |
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$ |
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I maintain that if OP wanted useful advice he should have demonstrated stuff like the outputs of his find commands and of `ls foo*.txt` and `ls /my/folder/foo*.txt`. I am getting tired of giving this advice here. |
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Stroller. |
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