on 2011-02-26 at 09:33 Grant wrote: >I can't get find to work. This works: > >locate *foo*.txt > >but none of these work: > >find /my/folder -name foo*.txt >find /my/folder -name *foo*.txt >find /my/folder -type f -name '*foo*.txt' > >What am I doing wrong? I do need the find to be recursive in that folder.
i'm sorry i haven't been following the thread too closely, but the last one should work. according to man find, when using wildcards in a search, "you should enclose the pattern in quotes or escape the wildcard", meaning that all these work: find /my/folder -type f -name "*foo*.txt" find /my/folder -type f -name '*foo*.txt' find /my/folder -type f -name \*foo\*.txt they certainly work for me. am i missing something?
