[wplug] searching lots of dirs?

[Petrucci, Joseph]

to search for a dot file ".foo" try
 
find . -name \.foo*
 
Joseph A. Petrucci
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From: wplug-bounces+joseph.petrucci=ddiworld.com at wplug.org on behalf of Sal Mangiapane
Sent: Mon 5/9/2005 10:31 PM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] searching lots of dirs?




>>How do I search for dotfiles with find? I tried locate and it didn't
>>find anything. I am searching dirs in AFS so I tried `find . -name
>>"*foo*" -print -noleaf` and it still seems to only be searching 1
>>level. ???
>>   
>>

Why not:

find .  | grep foo

You can add "-type f" because use said files and the "-print" is optional:

find . -type f -print | grep foo

Sal
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