Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 15:39:16 -0400 (EDT) From: CyberPeasant <djv@bedford.net> To: beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA (BEAUPRE Antoine) Cc: peter@sweda.com.hk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find command Message-ID: <199808271939.PAA12022@lucy.bedford.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.96.980827075907.11313B-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca> from BEAUPRE Antoine at "Aug 27, 98 08:00:24 am"
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BEAUPRE Antoine wrote: > This is unclear. > > Try > > find . -name bozo > > to find all the files and directories with "bozo" in their names, starting > in current dir (.) No, this finds all files named exactly "bozo". To find all files with 'bozo' in their names, you need to use a regex: find . -name '*bozo*' Quoting usually needed, so that the regex is not expanded by the shell. Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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