Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4547 mails)

[Sid Boyce <sboyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Paulsen wrote:

> On Monday 17 May 2004 03:43, 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
> >    
>
> You need to put quotes around the expression you are looking for if it 
> contains special characters that the shell will act on (in your case the *). 
> Try this...
>
> 	 find / -name "*.rpm"
>
> You want the find command to see the *, not the shell.
>
>  
barrabas:/ftp/apr04/cdrtools-2.01 # time find /usr -name 3Ddiag* -print0
/usr/bin/3Ddiag.runtime/usr/bin/3Ddiag.nvidia_glx/usr/bin/3Ddiag-result/usr/bin/3Ddiag.devel/usr/bin/3Ddiag/usr/bin/3Ddiag.ignoredb/usr/bin/3Ddiag.dri
real    2m44.757s
user    0m0.680s
sys     0m8.060s
Time enough to make that cup of cofee.

barrabas:/ftp/apr04/cdrtools-2.01 # time locate 3Ddiag
/data1/SZB50/usr/bin/3Ddiag
/data1/SZB50/usr/bin/3Ddiag-result
/data1/SZB50/usr/bin/3Ddiag.devel
/data1/SZB50/usr/bin/3Ddiag.dri
/data1/SZB50/usr/bin/3Ddiag.ignoredb
/data1/SZB50/usr/bin/3Ddiag.mesaglide
/data1/SZB50/usr/bin/3Ddiag.mesasoft
/data1/SZB50/usr/bin/3Ddiag.nvidia_glx
/data1/SZB50/usr/bin/3Ddiag.runtime
/data1/SZB50/usr/bin/3Ddiag.sh
/data1/usr/bin/3Ddiag
/data1/usr/bin/3Ddiag-result
/data1/usr/bin/3Ddiag.devel
/data1/usr/bin/3Ddiag.dri
/data1/usr/bin/3Ddiag.ignoredb
/data1/usr/bin/3Ddiag.nvidia_glx
/data1/usr/bin/3Ddiag.runtime
/data1/var/tmp/3ddiag-0.703-build/usr/bin/3Ddiag
/data1/var/tmp/3ddiag-0.703-build/usr/bin/3Ddiag-result
/data1/var/tmp/3ddiag-0.703-build/usr/bin/3Ddiag.devel
/data1/var/tmp/3ddiag-0.703-build/usr/bin/3Ddiag.dri
/data1/var/tmp/3ddiag-0.703-build/usr/bin/3Ddiag.ignoredb
/data1/var/tmp/3ddiag-0.703-build/usr/bin/3Ddiag.nvidia_glx
/data1/var/tmp/3ddiag-0.703-build/usr/bin/3Ddiag.runtime
/usr/bin/3Ddiag
/usr/bin/3Ddiag-result
/usr/bin/3Ddiag.devel
/usr/bin/3Ddiag.dri
/usr/bin/3Ddiag.ignoredb
/usr/bin/3Ddiag.nvidia_glx
/usr/bin/3Ddiag.runtime

real    0m2.311s
user    0m1.460s
sys     0m0.046s

On a XP2800+ 512MB, that was. With "locate -i" it will ignore case.
Regards
Sid.

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