On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 01:58, Sudarsan Sridhar <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 23:42, pahnin sd <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:34 PM, etika ahuja <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> hey >>> its a very basic question but iam not getting it right now >>> i have to list all the pdf files on my desktop even the pdf files which >>> are present in folders on the desktop >>> >>> ls *.pdf >> >> this will do >> >> ls -R|grep .pdf >> >>> >>> only list the files present on the desktop, but not the files in the >>> folders on the desktop containing the pdf files. > > find . -name '*.pdf'
I think it's "*.pdf" and not '*.pdf' ;-), unless its a non bash shell. Wish it could be done like this: ls -R *.pdf > > -- > LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer > -- Lots o' Luv, Phani Bhushan Let not your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right - Isaac Asimov (Salvor Hardin in Foundation and Empire) Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- LUG@IITD - http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
