[Cialug] Using find

[Josh More]

Likely because your shell is extrapolating the asterisks, resulting in
something like "find . -regex this/ -print"

Try:

find . -regex '*this*' -print

 (Note, I couldn't duplicate the problem, but then I don't know which
shell your running, and your respective versions of both the shell and
findutils.  This is just a common answer to such a problem.)


 

-Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
 morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
 515-245-7701



>>> "Todd Walton" <tdwalton at gmail.com> 06/09/07 11:45 AM >>> 
Why does this command:

     find . - regex *this* - print

give me this output?

     find: paths must precede expression
     Usage: find [- H] [- L] [- P] [path...] [expression]

- todd
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