17 May
2004
17 May
'04
11:07
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 04:43, Jerome Lyles wrote:
On Friday 14 May 2004 03:06 pm, Rob Freeman wrote:
I have never been able to find such a program on Linux.
I always:
su find directory -name filename
hence to search the entire computer for all rpm's
find / -name *.rpm
Need to be root
Rob
su Password: # find / -name *.rpm find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [path...] [expression] #
What happened? Isn't '/' enough path for this command? Thanks, Jerome
I have had this experience for some time with the find command. If I change to / it then works fine. May be time to contact the programmers about this bug. -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)