Finding files by Extention in a CLI
Matthew Miller
mattdm at mattdm.org
Fri Feb 11 18:35:09 UTC 2005
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 06:29:18PM +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> >$ find . -name '*.[Cc][Oo][Mm]' -print
> My excuse for not using the vastly superior "find . -iname '*.com'"
> is... I didn't know about it! I use HP-UX a lot at work and the HP-UX
> version of "find" doesn't have the -iname option.
That's one of the better excuses. :)
With the GNU find package, you also don't need to specify "-print", as it's
the default action if nothing else is given. When writing scripts, though, I
try to remember to use it for compatibility.
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