[opensuse] find problem
Can someone explain the following "find" error. The "path" is specified by the "." in the command line. find . -name *copy_3* -exec rm {}\; find: paths must precede expression -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 13:22 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
Can someone explain the following "find" error. The "path" is specified by the "." in the command line.
find . -name *copy_3* -exec rm {}\;
find: paths must precede expression
It means you have something in . that matches *copy_3* so you get file
expansion.
find . -name \*copy_3\* -exec rm {}\;
or
find . -name "*copy_3*" -exec rm {}\;
-JP
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JP Rosevear
On Friday 14 September 2007 10:22, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
Can someone explain the following "find" error. The "path" is specified by the "." in the command line.
find . -name *copy_3* -exec rm {}\;
find: paths must precede expression
My guess would be that the current directory contains at least two files that match the glob pattern "*copy_3*". In general, you should quote arguments that have the form of a glob or regular expression pattern (or any other special shell syntax): find . -name '*copy_3*' -exec rm {} \; Note, too, that the semicolon that tells find where the exec argument list ends must be a separate argument.
-- Ken Schneider
Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi, Since I'm experiencing big problems getting my onboard intel i965G to display 1680x1050 i consider to get a new graphics card. Now, does anyone have experience with some PCIe graphics card that is able to display this resolution in Linux? Would be nice if the card was dual headed. And it should be reasonable priced. :) Thanks for suggestions and hints, Ron :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi, Ron, Just take any nvidia card, i.e. geforce 7300, it costs close to nothing. As for me, I am now use 8600GT (fanless). On Friday 14 September 2007 20:55:16 Ron Eggler wrote:
Hi,
Since I'm experiencing big problems getting my onboard intel i965G to display 1680x1050 i consider to get a new graphics card. Now, does anyone have experience with some PCIe graphics card that is able to display this resolution in Linux? Would be nice if the card was dual headed. And it should be reasonable priced. :)
Thanks for suggestions and hints,
Ron :)
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Since I'm experiencing big problems getting my onboard intel i965G to display 1680x1050 i consider to get a new graphics card. Now, does anyone have experience with some PCIe graphics card that is able to display this resolution in Linux? Would be nice if the card was dual headed. And it should be reasonable priced. :)
Thanks for suggestions and hints,
There are more choices than you can shake a proverbial stick at. One thing you haven't stated is what you want from such a card. Is it only for normal desktop use? or are you wanting it also for OpenGL stuff.. like gaming and Compiz-Fusion? Both nVidia and ATI are usually good choices. nVidia has historically been slightly less problematic getting the binary drivers installed and working. With ATI opening up their drivers, this may change in favor of ATI in the near future... who knows. For cards, you can keep the expenses down and pick up an older nVidia 6600GT. The performance is quite good in single or dual head. I used a 6600GT for a long time and recently upgraded to a 7600 (even this card is relatively inexpensive now) . I'm sure others can chime in here with suggestions for ATI and other brands. C -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
(Please don't hijack another message's thread. This means don't do a 'reply' and just change the subject, as it screws up the threading.) Ron Eggler wrote:
Hi,
Since I'm experiencing big problems getting my onboard intel i965G to display 1680x1050 i consider to get a new graphics card. Now, does anyone have experience with some PCIe graphics card that is able to display this resolution in Linux? Would be nice if the card was dual headed. And it should be reasonable priced. :)
I just picked up an nVidia 8600GT card and can compare it pretty directly with the ATI x850 I have in my other machine: 1] I think the ATI worked better "out of the box". It has worked so well, I haven't needed to install the ATI proprietary drivers. My dual monitor setup has worked well. 2] The nVidia required the proprietary drivers in order to be at all functional. The standard ones were incredibly slow and didn't do my dual monitors. Installation, while not painless, wasn't too bad. I installed the packages as indicated here and then did an 'init 3' and a 'sax -r' and all was good. http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA As the fancy new 3D desktops don't really work with dual monitors (yet?), and I don't do Linux gaming, I think in the future I will go with ATI. I can't really comment on the 3d Linux performance of either card. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) Linux Brain Dump - Linux Notes, HOWTOs and Tutorials: http://www.linuxbraindump.org Daemon Dancing in the Dark, an Open OS weblog: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
You also hijacked my thread! Please DO-NOT simply hit reply to ask a new question, start with a NEW email. The simplest way is to click on the list address in the To: field. On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:55 -0700, Ron Eggler wrote:
Hi,
Since I'm experiencing big problems getting my onboard intel i965G to display 1680x1050 i consider to get a new graphics card. Now, does anyone have experience with some PCIe graphics card that is able to display this resolution in Linux? Would be nice if the card was dual headed. And it should be reasonable priced. :)
Thanks for suggestions and hints,
Ron :) -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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On Friday September 14 2007, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
You also hijacked my thread! Please DO-NOT simply hit reply to ask a new question, start with a NEW email. The simplest way is to click on the list address in the To: field.
Yes, I'm sorry, won't do it anymore! Ron
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:55 -0700, Ron Eggler wrote:
Hi,
Since I'm experiencing big problems getting my onboard intel i965G to display 1680x1050 i consider to get a new graphics card. Now, does anyone have experience with some PCIe graphics card that is able to display this resolution in Linux? Would be nice if the card was dual headed. And it should be reasonable priced. :)
Thanks for suggestions and hints,
Ron :)
-- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
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On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 13:21 -0700, Ron Eggler wrote:
On Friday September 14 2007, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
You also hijacked my thread! Please DO-NOT simply hit reply to ask a new question, start with a NEW email. The simplest way is to click on the list address in the To: field.
Yes, I'm sorry, won't do it anymore!
Ron
Not a problem Ron. A lot of people search the list archives and it just looks screwy there. Plus some people on the list don't reply to hi-jacked threads. A good way to reply to a posting on the list, since you are using Kmail, is just hit the letter l which stands for reply-to-list. This list is a very good source of info. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:22:14 -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
Can someone explain the following "find" error. The "path" is specified by the "." in the command line.
find . -name *copy_3* -exec rm {}\;
find: paths must precede expression
*Always* quote arguments when using wildcards. And if you expect find to find a larger number of files, it's more economic to do find . -name \*copy_3\* -print0|xargs -0 rm because you then call rm less often, most likely only once and not for every single file. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Quoting Kenneth Schneider
Can someone explain the following "find" error. The "path" is specified by the "." in the command line.
find . -name *copy_3* -exec rm {}\;
Try: find . -name "*copy_3*" -exec rm \{} \; -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) -
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Jonathan Arnold -
JP Rosevear -
Kenneth Schneider -
Philipp Thomas -
Randall R Schulz -
Ron Eggler