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on 2011-02-26 at 09:33 Grant wrote: |
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>I can't get find to work. This works: |
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>locate *foo*.txt |
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>but none of these work: |
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>find /my/folder -name foo*.txt |
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>find /my/folder -name *foo*.txt |
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>find /my/folder -type f -name '*foo*.txt' |
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>What am I doing wrong? I do need the find to be recursive in that folder. |
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i'm sorry i haven't been following the thread too closely, but the last |
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one should work. according to man find, when using wildcards in a search, |
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"you should enclose the pattern in quotes or escape the wildcard", meaning |
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that all these work: |
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find /my/folder -type f -name "*foo*.txt" |
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find /my/folder -type f -name '*foo*.txt' |
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find /my/folder -type f -name \*foo\*.txt |
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they certainly work for me. am i missing something? |
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