From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 8 20: 0: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-107-10.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.107.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E73337B404 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:00:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2184066C76; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:00:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:00:04 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Peter Leftwich Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: find /etc -name conf -print Message-ID: <20020308200004.A54313@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020308220350.O68770-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020308220350.O68770-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net>; from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com on Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:04:30PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:04:30PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > Why does this command fail to return any *.conf files? Because you forgot to include a glob wildcard, so the pattern only matches files exactly named 'conf' Kris --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8iYjEWry0BWjoQKURAj2EAKC3o9Lqf1ciZM/Py8k60UroeEiB3wCgwiGc /9EScHwjmZjM8xJ4grhNHAg= =Kk+0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message