Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-03-01 Thread Grant
I'm having trouble with this again.  I get: # ls -l /var/cache/revdep-rebuild total 424 -rwx-- 1 root portage    699 Feb 28 16:52 0_env.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage 323445 Feb 28 16:38 1_files.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage  34387 Feb 28 16:38 2_ldpath.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage     57

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-28 Thread Grant
I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: foo*.txt but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards.  I tried to figure out how to do it with find but failed.  Can anyone point me in the right direction? - Grant Try locate */foo*.txt. mlocate seems to match

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-28 Thread Alex Schuster
Grant writes: I'm having trouble with this again. I get: # ls -l /var/cache/revdep-rebuild total 424 -rwx-- 1 root portage699 Feb 28 16:52 0_env.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage 323445 Feb 28 16:38 1_files.rr -rwx-- 1 root portage 34387 Feb 28 16:38 2_ldpath.rr -rwx-- 1

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 06:52:36AM +, Stroller wrote: AIUI using `find /my/folder -name foo*.txt` (i.e. unquoted) the shell will pass the * to find if it can't expand it itself. Not necessarily true. On bash if you set the 'nullglob' option, if the shell can't find the file the word will

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-27 Thread Grant
I can't get find to work.  This works: locate *foo*.txt but none of these work: find /my/folder -name foo*.txt find /my/folder -name *foo*.txt find /my/folder -type f -name '*foo*.txt' $ mkdir -p  /my/folder mkdir: cannot create directory `/my': Permission denied $ mkdir -p my/folder

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-26 Thread Roman Zilka
Amankwah (Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:19:22 +0800): On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 06:26:51PM -0800, Grant wrote: I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: foo*.txt but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards. I tried to figure out how to do it with find but failed.

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-26 Thread Grant
I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: foo*.txt but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards.  I tried to figure out how to do it with find but failed.  Can anyone point me in the right direction? - Grant Try locate */foo*.txt. mlocate seems to match

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-26 Thread Grant
I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: foo*.txt but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards.  I tried to figure out how to do it with find but failed.  Can anyone point me in the right direction? - Grant How about this? find -name foo*.txt ? I can't get

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-26 Thread luis jure
on 2011-02-26 at 09:33 Grant wrote: I can't get find to work. This works: locate *foo*.txt but none of these work: find /my/folder -name foo*.txt find /my/folder -name *foo*.txt find /my/folder -type f -name '*foo*.txt' What am I doing wrong? I do need the find to be recursive in that

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-26 Thread Roman Zilka
I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: foo*.txt but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards.  I tried to figure out how to do it with find but failed.  Can anyone point me in the right direction? - Grant How about this? find -name foo*.txt ?

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-26 Thread Stroller
On 26/2/2011, at 5:33pm, Grant wrote: I can't get find to work. This works: locate *foo*.txt but none of these work: find /my/folder -name foo*.txt find /my/folder -name *foo*.txt find /my/folder -type f -name '*foo*.txt' $ mkdir -p /my/folder mkdir: cannot create directory `/my':

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-26 Thread Stroller
On 27/2/2011, at 6:30am, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2011 03:46:48 Stroller wrote: On 26/2/2011, at 5:33pm, Grant wrote: find /my/folder -type f -name '*foo*.txt' He didn't quote the search string and neither did the grandparent. Find will do what he's asking and it's

[gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-25 Thread Grant
I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: foo*.txt but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards. I tried to figure out how to do it with find but failed. Can anyone point me in the right direction? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-25 Thread Amankwah
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 06:26:51PM -0800, Grant wrote: I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: foo*.txt but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards. I tried to figure out how to do it with find but failed. Can anyone point me in the right direction? -

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: I used to use slocate like this to search the filesystem for a file: foo*.txt but mlocate doesn't seem to accept wildcards.  I tried to figure out how to do it with find but failed.  Can anyone point me in the right

Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard

2011-02-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:19 PM, Amankwah amankw...@gmail.com wrote: How about this? find -name foo*.txt ? Why would you scan the entire file system when you have an speedy index?