From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 17:43:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ECE516A4CE for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 17:43:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp04.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp04.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D4243D54 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 17:42:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from roberthuff@rcn.com) Received: from 209-6-197-67.c3-0.smr-ubr1.sbo-smr.ma.cable.rcn.com (HELO jerusalem.litteratus.org.litteratus.org) (209.6.197.67) by smtp04.mrf.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 12 May 2005 13:42:57 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.93,100,1115006400"; d="scan'208"; a="33924768:sNHT1609962244" From: Robert Huff MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17027.38037.109481.185895@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 13:38:29 -0400 To: In-Reply-To: <20050512172827.GA18666@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <42838801.1000507@makeworld.com> <20050512172827.GA18666@slackbox.xs4all.nl> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.5 (beta20) "cilantro" (+CVS-20050310) XEmacs Lucid Subject: Re: Scripting help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 17:43:00 -0000 Roland Smith writes: > Finding files is done (unsurprisingly) with find. E.g. to find all .c > files under the current directory do: > > find . -name *.c I believe find . -name "*.c" is prefered, so the wildcard doesn't get mangled by the shell. Robert Huff