Jerry writes: > Kevin, in your solution (listed below), why are there 2 directory names are > used? Could you please explain a bit to me? Thank you. > > > find your-dirname1 your-dirname2 -name \*out\* \ > -exec perl -e 'undef $/; > $filename=$ARGV[0]; > $_=<>; > exit(!(-T $filename && /\bzip\b/))' \{\} \; -print \ > >zip.txt > > > BTW, yes, I'm serious about the "plain text files" part.
By "your-dirname1" and "your-dirname2" I mean the directories *you* are interested in searching. For example: find /usr/src /media/usbdrive /home/jerry/src/foo -exec perl ....... In your case, you might want to begin searching for the current directory, which is ".". find . -exec perl ....... Regards, --kevin -- GnuPG ID: B280F24E Never could stand that dog. alumni.unh.edu!kdc -- Tom Waits _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/