19 May
2004
19 May
'04
17:14
On Monday 17 May 2004 03:43, Jerome Lyles wrote:
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.
I created a script file in /usr/local/bin/fnd
find . -depth -mount -name "$1" -print | less usage "fnd "*abc*"" will find all files in the subordinate paths matching the mask. Bob Stanfield 29 Ledge Ln Pipersville, PA 18947 V 610-294-9884 Fax 610-294-8119