I've been using linux for quite a while but am still perplexed by
the proper usage of the 'find' program. I always end up using
locate instead. Anyway, I need it now so I re-read the man and
tried the following:
cd /tmp
touch testfile
find . -iname testfile -print
and I get nothing.
I also tried:
find /tmp -iname testfile -print
and
find /tmp -iname 'testfile' -print
and still get no decent results. Instead, I get this error msg:
find: warning: Unix filenames usually don't contain slashes (though
pathnames do). That means that '-iname /tmp' will probably evaluate
to false all the time on this system. You might find the
'-wholename' test more useful, or perhaps '-samefile'.
Alternatively, if you are using GNU grep, you could use 'find ...
-print0 | grep -FzZ /tmp'.
Or this example, straight from the man:
find . -type f -exec file '{}' \;
which returns nothing.
Now these are basic examples right from the man. Why can I not even
get these to work?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp$ dpkg -l |grep find
ii findutils 4.2.25-1
Thanks
Kevin
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