Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
On 2/10/24 16:07, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 02:58:24PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 2:46 PM gene heskett wrote: Greetings; I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. its name is bpim5*shelf.scad Assuming that you are searching in the

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

2024-02-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 06:03:39PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > On 2/10/24 15:55, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > find . -iname 'bpim5*shelf.scad' > > Thank you Greg, it worked and 4 more copies are under construction now, but > why is this not in the man page? Mind boggling. Why can Gene not

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

2024-02-10 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 03:46:09PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. > its name is bpim5*shelf.scad > As usual it outputs 100,000 filenames, none of which is the one I am looking > for. How in heck do you shut this thing up so it only spits out >

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
On 2/10/24 15:55, Greg Wooledge wrote: find . -iname 'bpim5*shelf.scad' Thank you Greg, it worked and 4 more copies are under construction now, but why is this not in the man page? Mind boggling. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap,

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

2024-02-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 02:58:24PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 2:46 PM gene heskett wrote: > > > Greetings; > > > > I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. > > its name is bpim5*shelf.scad > > > > Assuming that you are searching in the current working

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

2024-02-10 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 2:46 PM gene heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. > its name is bpim5*shelf.scad > Assuming that you are searching in the current working directory: find bpim* -print | grep 'shelf.scad' As usual it outputs 100,000 filenames,

Re: find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

2024-02-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 03:46:09PM -0500, gene heskett wrote: > I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. > its name is bpim5*shelf.scad > As usual it outputs 100,000 filenames, none of which is the one I am looking cd find . -iname 'bpim5*shelf.scad'

find and it uncommon syntax - grrrrrrrrr

2024-02-10 Thread gene heskett
Greetings; I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. its name is bpim5*shelf.scad As usual it outputs 100,000 filenames, none of which is the one I am looking for. How in heck do you shut this thing up so it only spits out /the/path/to/the/file its looking for it it even found it? And