Quick note here, the pattern match you mention below is not considered a
Regular expression but instead a "glob expression".
The primary difference is that in a glob * means match any number of any
characters, while in a regular expression it would be ".*" in other words
having a period before the *. This is because regular expressions use all
punctuation to mean something special
The period is used to match any character.
The star means zero or more of the immediately preceding pattern (in this case
. or any character).
Generally in UNIX like systems which terminal brings you to a bSD UNIX
environment, most places where you are requesting a matching of file names u
are using a glob pattern and not a regular expression.
Best wishes,
Jonathan Cohn
> On Mar 5, 2017, at 8:25 AM, 'Roland Zitzke' via MacVisionaries
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> I have some big folders that I need to search through forcertain files. I
> know i should be able to do it with finder but for some reason that does not
> work so well for me in the latest os x. I was wondering if there are any good
> vo accessible finder alternatives that work well?
>
> Well, it may sound trivial but if I need to search a folder I simply open
> Terminal, navigate to the folder I want to start my search from and then type
> find ./ -name MyFileStartsWith*
> replacing MyFileStartsWith with the part of the file name I am looking for.
> You can use any regular expression for your All files matching your criteria
> are then listed.
> /Roland
>
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