From owner-freebsd-questions  Thu Aug 10 14:48:17 2000
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B2B137B642
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:48:13 -0700 (PDT)
	(envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk)
Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim)
	by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1)
	id 13Mzhw-000GNM-00; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:17:44 +0100
Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.15 #1)
	id 13Mzhy-000A1l-00; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:17:46 +0100
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:17:46 +0100
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org>
Cc: Emmanuel Gravel <e_gravel@yahoo.com>,
	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: [OT] shell scripting, testing for files
Message-ID: <20000810221745.M48327@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
References: <20000810191204.27627.qmail@web1607.mail.yahoo.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008101213200.29554-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008101213200.29554-100000@q.closedsrc.org>
Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

Linh Pham wrote:

> Have you tried:
> 
> find /PATH_TO_START_SEARCH_AT | grep PATTERN ?

Or even

find /path/... -name "PATTERN"

(unless you really want to use a regex instead of a shell glob, but I
don't think the original poster did.)

-- 
Ben Smithurst                 / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D
FreeBSD Documentation Project /


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message