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Article #1695Re: Fast find won't in 3.0
From: Moises Oliveira
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 08:03
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 08:03
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In article <HARDY.92Oct1223541@golem.ps.uci.edu> hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) writes: >In preparation for the update to 3.0 (and the news that find stopped >working), Find has always used regexp (that's regular expression) to search for files when using both the normal method and fast find. In the past, the fast find has always accepted an impled star (* == match anything) on both ends of the expression. So if you typed find myfile Find would translate that to find *myfile* With the current version of find you must place your own stars on the expression. Since you (whoever is reading this) are probably using csh, you will probably need to escape the stars. So you would type. find \*myfile\* or find "*myfile*" This new method allows you to do things like find ~/\*.m | more which will show you all .m files inside your home folder (instead of all .m files, everywhere on the hard drive)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nevada.edu!oliverm From: oliverm@nevada.edu (Moises Oliveira ) Subject: Re: Fast find won't in 3.0 Message-ID: <1992Oct2.080355.25077@nevada.edu> Summary: REGEXP! Sender: news@nevada.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: helios.nevada.edu Organization: Organization? Ha, don't make me laugh References: <1992Oct1.151152.11977@socrates.umd.edu> <1992Oct1.175214.24003@ornl.gov> <HARDY.92Oct1223541@golem.ps.uci.edu> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 08:03:55 GMT Lines: 32