On Thu, 11 Sep 2014, John Jason Jordan wrote:

> I finally got some results with:
>
>       find -maxdepth 5 -atime +10  -name \*.odt

John,

   Why limit the directory depth? If you don't know where you stuck it, look
everywhere for it.

   Do you happen to know the filename? If so, try the locate command.

> Putting the escape in front of the * is necessary unless you quote the
> pattern, but doing '*.odt' produced no results. The escape worked,
> however.

   Huh! Both single and double quotes work just fine here.

Rich
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