17 May
2004
17 May
'04
11:14
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. -- Robert C. Paulsen, Jr. robert@paulsenonline.net