On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 11:45:30AM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > On Tuesday 07 November 2023 11:32:21 am gene heskett wrote: > > so locate isn't working as I think it should. > > try find but it finds the whole my whole local net: > > gene@coyote:~$ find .scad . |wc -l > > find: ‘.scad’: No such file or directory > > Try putting a * before the period in that find command?
No, it is more than that. The non-option arguments to find are the starting points. So "find .scad" would look for something (hopefully a directory, but in a pinch, a file would do, see below) and find everything in there which fulfills the search criteria. Since those are empty, you would get a listing of .scad and everything below it. If there's no .scad, the result is empty. Putting a * in front of it would get expanded *by the shell* (not by find), as was discussed elsewhere in this thread. Find would see the expanded result, so, if e.g. you have foo.scad, bar.scad and baz.scad in your current dir, the command actually run would be find foo.scad bar.scad baz.scad which would, if those are plain files, just list those three (something you can get far cheaper with ls). Cheers -- tomás
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