On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Pete Forman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Daniel Pittman writes:
>  > On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Joe Stoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  > 
>  > >> Log Message: Use 'find' internal filtering when listing files
>  > >> for completion on the remote machine, rather than piping through
>  > >> fgrep.  This should, hopefully, tickle automount bugs less often
>  > >> (as well as not depending on fgrep on the remote machine. :)
>  > > 
>  > > But it does depend on find on the remote machine: on Solaris
>  > > (SunOS 5.7) find does not support the -maxdepth option...
>  > 
>  > Gah. Does it support any option to allow limiting the recursion it
>  > does?
> 
> Er, -prune.

] cd / && find . -name b\* -type d \! -name . -prune -print

This gives me a recursive search. I think that I don't grok find(1) yet.

Worse still, I have been unable to find a variant on the command that
will spit out only the directories that match a filename prefix. Anyone?

        Daniel

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