Finding files by Extention in a CLI
H. Streit
hstreit at swri.edu
Fri Feb 11 18:22:49 UTC 2005
Thanks guys!
Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 12:13:23PM -0600, H. Streit wrote:
>
>>Okay, so I've just copied over a bunch of files and I want to find all
>>.com/.COM/.Com files...
>>I thought "find . -print|grep -i ".com" would work, tried a few
>>variants, but I know I'm doing something wrong...any takers?
>
>
> That will work, except it matches anything which contains the string "com"
> preceded by any character. It's also inefficient since the find command
> itself can do the filtering. Try this:
>
> find . -iname '*.com'
>
>
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