On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Alex Esplin wrote:
> On 7/24/06, Jeff Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ls R_{ALL,01}*
>
> Do the { } work for the `find` command also?
The man page says "no", but you can always use -o to "or" multiple -name
options together:
find . \( -name 'R_ALL*' -o -name 'R_01*' \) -print
Yes, it's a bit cumbersome. And yes, the parens are required. If you
leave out those parens, the foregoing find command will print only those
files which match the final pattern. If you don't like the parens, this
will work, too, though even more cumbersomely:
find . -name 'R_ALL*' -print -o -name 'R_01*' -print
The above differs slightly from the naive grep equivalent because -name
only matches file basenames. Unless you construct your pattern
specifically to avoid it, a simple grep will match anything in the full
pathnames.
Chris
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