On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 05:00:09PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> On 1/14/24 11:10, Arno Lehmann wrote:
> > Gene,
> >
> > Am 14.01.2024 um 16:56 schrieb gene heskett:
> > > On 1/14/24 04:58, David Christensen wrote:
> > > > find . -xdev -iname '*filter*'
> > > gene@coyote:/etc$ sudo find . -xdev -iname '*filter*'
> >
> > why sudo, and why in /etc ?
> /etc only because I was there and sudo to get around a whole passel of no
> permissons.
> I thought find was global. Its not? My mistake then.
The arguments after find which don't begin with "-" are the starting
point(s). In this case, your command asks find to start in "." which
is the current directory.
If you were to run something like
find /tmp /var -iname '*.log'
then it would look for pathnames ending with .log (case-insensitive)
starting in /tmp and /var.
