Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mcnc!xanth!jim
From: jim@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Jim Duncan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Finding Files
Message-ID: <3665@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Date: 11 Dec 87 10:19:27 GMT
References: <205700003@prism>
Reply-To: jim@xanth.UUCP (Jim Duncan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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In article <205700003@prism> billc@prism.UUCP writes:
>	    alias	where	"find \$cwd -name \!* -exec echo {} \;"
>	Question: Is there a better way to do this?

Yes.  Why not use `-print' in place of `-exec echo {} \;' ?  Also, I'm not
sure of what happens if your script comes accross a filename with asterisks
in it -- possible you should escape it also.  Lastly, wouldn't it be better
if you started the find with the current directory instead of your $HOME ?
I assume you're in a different situation than I am -- I have a ridiculous
number of subdirectories, and find's depth-first search would take forever
to locate some of my stuff if I always started at $HOME.



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