On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 10:20:26AM +0100, Avis, Ed wrote: > % find . -name foo/bar > > Actual output: nothing > Desired output: warning: don't be silly, Unix filenames can't contain > a slash.
Good idea. I implemented something slightly different:- $ ./find . -name quux/umsp ./find: warning: Unix filenames usually don't contain slashes (though pathnames do). That means that '-name quux/umsp' will probably evaluate to false all the time on this system. You might find the '-wholename' test more useful, or perhaps '-samefile'. Alternatively, if you are using GNU grep, you could use 'find ... -print0 | grep -FzZ quux/umsp'. The message goes to stderr, but it's only a warning. James. _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
