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- From: jefouger@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jim Fougeron)
- Subject: Re: Help using find with wildcards
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.043445.2794@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- References: <1992Dec30.140356.22976@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 04:34:45 GMT
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- markn@ssd.comm.mot.com (Mark Nowak) writes:
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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?
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- >I'm thinking of something along the lines of:
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- >find . -name *bcd* -print
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- try: find . -name \*bcd\* -print
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- >but that doesn't work.
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- Jim Fougeron jefouger@nyx.cs.du.edu
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