The easiest would be to just 'find . ' That tells it to search in the current dirctory (and also find hidden files in the current directory, which "find *" won't)
I don't see why "Doc - PDF" would cause you problems, but I can see "-pdf doc" causing a problem, because the leading '-' makes the filename look like a find search option (and all other filenames after that are evaluated in that context).
That can be worked around by using './*' instead of '*' (replace '*' with any globbing pattern) This would keep the first character of a filename from ever being a "-"
Tony Gogoi wrote:
I have another question.
"find ./*" displays recursively all files in this and its sub-directories.
However for some files that were ftp'ed from a Windows system eg. something like in the one of the directories "(Doc - PDF) My Document.pdf" would cause "find *" to display "invalid predicate...." . How can I overcome this problem ?
Thanks.
Thanks Mike and Raju for ur earlier responses.
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