From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 16 15:40:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97B6337B402 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 15:40:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2BE728DEE; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:39:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 18:39:58 -0500 (EST) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: Kris Kennaway Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: find /etc -name conf -print [*conf*?] In-Reply-To: <20020308200004.A54313@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20020316183843.M18121-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:04:30PM -0500, Peter Leftwich wrote: > PL> 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 How would one correct the command line to include results for filenames such as "rc.conf" and "myconfiguration.txt," etc...? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message