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From: limes@sun.com (Greg Limes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Directory searching utility
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Date: 9 Aug 89 00:15:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: ahmad@icsib6.Berkeley.EDU's message of 8 Aug 89 22:54:23 GMT

In article <16137@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> ahmad@icsib6.Berkeley.EDU (Subutai Ahmad) writes:

>  Does anyone have a utility which searches the current directory
>  and all its subdirectories for files which match the arguments?
>  For example (if it was named lsd), the command
>	   lsd *.c *.h
>  would list all the .c and .h files in the current subtree.  It should
>  indicate which directories each file came from.

Could be written, but at a minimum you would have to quote those
pesky stars to get them past your shell.

Why not just use find?

	% find . -name '*.[hc]' -print
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