[wplug] searching lots of dirs?

[Petrucci, Joseph]

Thanks for the correction, unfortunitly I am at a client that has very little access to *NIX machines so I cannot always test my commands.

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From: wplug-bounces+joseph.petrucci=ddiworld.com at wplug.org
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Of Jonathan Billings
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 9:22 AM
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Subject: Re: [wplug] searching lots of dirs?


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

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