Looking for Files with Particular Names
You can look for particular files by using a regular expression with metacharacters (shell wildcards, not grep-like expressions ()) as an argument to the -name operator. Because the shell also understands these metacharacters, it is necessary to quote () them so they are passed to find unchanged. Any kind of quoting can be used:
%find . -name \*.o -print%find . -name '*.o' -print%find . -name "[a-zA-Z]*.o" -print
Any directory along the path to the file is not matched with the -name operator, merely the name at the end of the path. For example, the commands above would not match the pathname /subdir.o/afile-but they would match /subdir.o and /src/subdir/prog.o.
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sh_init | Article shows a way to match directories in the middle of a path. [Here's a "find file" alias: |
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alias ff "find . -name '*\!{*}*' -ls"
Give it a file or directory name; the alias will give a long listing of any file or directory names that contain the argument. For example:
%ff makedirs415863 3 -rw-r--r-- 1 359 daemon 2072 Feb 19 1994 ./adir/makedirs.sh
Very handy. -JP ]
- BB