mmm something nipped it On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 12:50, Chadley Wilson wrote: > hello friends > > probably a stupid question, if I run find on a file called test1 if I > have the file then it responds like this. > |[chadley@chadlin play]$ find . test1 |. |./test1 |./test2 |./test3 |./test4 |./test5 |./test6 |test1 But now the files I am actually looking for are called (test)a ,b ,c etc this is what find returns. |[chadley@chadlin play]$ find . \(test\)a |find: invalid predicate `(test)a' |[chadley@chadlin play]$ find . '(test)a' |find: invalid predicate `(test)a' Can someone direct me to the light please. > [chadley@chadlin play]$ find . test1 -- ****************************************************************** Chadley Wilson Soon 2 B RHCE Linux Rocks Welcome to my world. Enjoy the adventures of Linux *************************************************** Linux is easy, lazy people critise, curse and fail.
