[wplug] searching lots of dirs?

Robert E. Coutch robert.coutch at verizon.net
Sun May 8 01:29:11 EDT 2005


Try this:
find . -name "*foo*" 2>/dev/null

On Sunday 08 May 2005 01:25 am, Zachary Uram wrote:
> On 5/8/05, James O'Kane <jo2y at midnightlinux.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 May 2005, Zachary Uram wrote:
> > > I tried the
> > > "find" command but it doesn't seem to be recursing.
> >
> > find should be the right tool. Care to give the full command line you're
> > trying?
>
> I go to the TLD and do:
>
> `find . -name *foo* -print`
>
> also tried
>
> `find . -name foo -print`
>
> and
>
> 'find . -name "*foo*" -print`
>
> Yet find does not recurse into subdirectories.
>
> Zach
>
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