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From: Amankwah <amankwah7@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2011 04:05:21
Message-Id: 20110226031922.GA11390@Diamond.KWGR614
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard by Grant
1 On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 06:26:51PM -0800, Grant wrote:
2 > I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file:
3 >
4 > foo*.txt
5 >
6 > but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards. I tried to figure out
7 > how to do it with find but failed. Can anyone point me in the right
8 > direction?
9 >
10 > - Grant
11
12 How about this?
13
14 find -name foo*.txt ?

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard Mike Gilbert <floppymaster@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard Roman Zilka <zilka@×××××××.cz>
Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>