[wplug] searching lots of dirs?

[Jonathan Billings]

On 5/10/05, Petrucci, Joseph <Joseph.Petrucci at ddiworld.com> wrote:
>  
> to search for a dot file ".foo" try 
>   
> find . -name \.foo* 


Unforuntately, this won't work if your shell interprets the asterisk
as a glob before the command is executed.  You need to escape the
asterisk too:

find . -name .foo\*

-- 
  Jonathan Billings
jsbillings at gmail.com