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- From: markn@ssd.comm.mot.com (Mark Nowak)
- Subject: Help using find with wildcards
- Organization: Motorola
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 14:03:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.140356.22976@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
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- Anybody know how to find files, directories, etc. when you
- don't know the exact name of the file you're looking for.
- For example, I'm looking for file abcde in some directory
- tree, but the only characters I know for sure are bcd. Is
- there a wat to use find to locate this file?
-
- I'm thinking of something along the lines of:
-
- find . -name *bcd* -print
-
- but that doesn't work.
-
- Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.
-
-
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