On Mon, Jul 06, 1998 at 08:19:36PM -0700, Christopher Barry wrote: > Hi all, > > I just keeping getting all these lovely questions for you. At a console, > if I want to search for a file or any files with a certain extension in > the current directory and all sub directories and list them, what's the > best way to do this? The equivalent in DOS would be "dir /s *.whatever" > but this doesn't work with ls like "ls -R *.deb", for instance. I can do > "ls -R | more" and then use more's search ability but this is getting > tiring. Man page isn't too helpful either.
man -k keyword is much more usefull ;) opk a couple of things: 1) as with most things in Unix-like systems...there is more than 1 way to do this...in fact...there are probably 10 or 20 ways (SideNote: someone in debian-devel a few weeks ago made a comment about differnt ways to find the current UID of a person exectuting a shell script...amzing how many ways it can be done) 2) The "file extension" is only as usefull as you trust it ;) unlike most DOS applications, it is rather uncommon for an application in a Unix-like environment to make assumptions based on filenames. 3) check out: find, locate, grep check this out...lets say I am looking for .jpg files throughout my entire system: $ locate .jpg /usr/doc/dhelp/debian.jpg /usr/doc/info2www/infodoc.jpg now lets say I am in /usr/doc/dhelp and ONLY want ones "under" that directory: $ locate .jpg|grep `pwd` /usr/doc/dhelp/debian.jpg thats just my creative solution... I am sure there are many others (why is it I can never think of that when I actually need to use it?) anyone else got some ways? -Steve -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
