Your syntax is incorrect. Try: find . -name "1000*"
I just tried in in /tmp on my cygwin installation and here's the output: $ find . -name 1000* -o -name 1000.* ./1000 ./1000/1000.zip ./1000.tar.gz You can limit the find to just files or directories with the -type flag. Do 'info find' to learn more. The way you had the expression written each conditional was joined with an implicit -a (and) so that find would only print if all three evaluated to true. You wanted a -o (or) between each pattern but really you can accomplish what you want with a quoted pattern, which IMHO is a more straight-forward way to look for what you want. Ian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: January 31, 2003 3:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems with find Hi folks, I trie to search file with find an didn't find all the file which should be found I search for all file starting with 1000 an the file 1000.zip in the diretory 1000 is not found $ find . -name 1000\* ./1000.zip ./1000 but when I ls the directory 1000 the file is listed $ ls 1000 1000.zip As you can see I use the find installed in /usr/bin $ which find /usr/bin/find $ type find find is hashed (/usr/bin/find) what is wrong? Is it a bug or my fault? Thanks for any help and hint Franz ________________________________________________________________________ ______ Ihnen fehlen die richtigen Worte für Ihre SMS? WEB.DE FreeMail hat die besten Sprueche für Sie. http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021169 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/