* Brenda J. Butler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020429 23:44]: > Also, personally I like to force the period to be a period and > not a wildcard for "any character", just in case there was a file > named myfilewhichisjpg that I didn't want to match. I also > usually put the -print explicitly.
These are shell patterns, not regular expressions. The . is not special; it is just a dot. find also supports a -regex expression, which does match regexes, in which case the leading '*' is nonstandard at best -- my guess is that since it isn't following another token as a quantifier it would match only a literal '*', which is probably not what you want. good times, Vineet -- Currently seeking opportunities in the SF Bay Area Please see http://www.doorstop.net/resume.shtml
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