-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 June 2004 12:35, Chadley Wilson wrote: > On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 13:27, Chadley Wilson wrote: > Ah HA!! > I am genius! no really I am, This is still possible. > ok the correct syntax is to use back ticks found on your tilde key, > > Like this > find /in/this/dir/ `(fileinbrackets)*` > tadah! Those backticks make the shell interpret what's inside them as a command and returns the result to the find commandline. So I guess if it is working it is expanding the * thereby and returning the individual filenames. Will this still work if the cwd is not /in/this/dir? I think not. Everyone is telling you to use -find... give it a try :-) Also you can use backslashes to escape difficult characters you know, like \(stuff\) - -Andy - -- Automatic actions for USB cameras, cardreaders, memory sticks, MP3 players http://warmcat.com/usbautocam -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAxFfpjKeDCxMJCTIRAsajAJ9ON6FtqwMWgK6WorhEBnCWjq2QJACfX7yB pjwNaLe8hBqvMhxlv5JIHMs= =4VPa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
