On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 13:27, Chadley Wilson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 13:12, Andy Green wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Monday 07 June 2004 11:59, Chadley Wilson wrote: > > > > > Can someone direct me to the light please. > > > > - -name ? > Thanks Andy and Cam for replying but I have checked the man pages for > the solution but the problem is with the file name being in brackets, I > have tried using the escape character to get it to search for files with > the brakets but it keeps spitting out and error as in my first mail. > The problem is that it is trying to interpret the the curve brakets and > not search for the filename with the curve brackets. > Does anyone else have a suggestion please. > > The senario is as follows, > > eg I have ten files called (file)a (file)b (file)c etc. > I need to search for (file)b. > according to the man pages the correct parameters are as follows, > find /home \(file\)* > use esc character to get it to interpret the search incl brackets > or > find /home '(file)*' > this interprets the everything between the quotes as is. > but I still get invalid predicate. Ah HA!! I am genius! no really I am, ok the correct syntax is to use back ticks found on your tilde key, Like this find /in/this/dir/ `(fileinbrackets)*` tadah! -- ****************************************************************** 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.
