find

[Steve Blackwell]

On 06/07/2004 07:56:25 AM, Andy Green wrote:
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> On Monday 07 June 2004 12:35, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 13:27, Chadley Wilson wrote:
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> > Ah HA!!
> > I am genius! no really I am,
> 
> This is still possible.
> 
> > ok the correct syntax is to use back ticks found on your tilde key,
> >
> > Like this
> > find /in/this/dir/ `(fileinbrackets)*`
> > tadah!
> 
> Those backticks make the shell interpret what's inside them as a
> command and
> returns the result to the find commandline.  So I guess if it is
> working it
> is expanding the * thereby and returning the individual filenames.
> Will this
> still work if the cwd is not /in/this/dir?  I think not.

Use double quotes:

find / -name "(file)*" -print

Steve