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From: John Beckett 

Randall Parker

wrote in message news::
> dir /s book*.*

You've had some informative replies, but they have not mentioned one vital
point. If Unix had a 'dir /s' command, the above would still not do what you
want because Unix has no concept of a file extension.

The pattern book*.*
matches only file names starting with 'book' AND that contain a period
(".")
after 'book'.

As was mentioned, you need pattern book* (no period).

The action "-print" is usually the default, so the equivalent of
DOS 'dir /s
book*.*' is
find . -name "book*"

The '.' refers to the current directory. Use '/' to start from root.

When I last investigated 'find' (a couple of years ago), I discovered that you
should use 'locate' or better still 'slocate'. These are much faster, but
depend on an index file being maintained.

I think that 'find' is strictly case sensitive, whereas 'slocate' has an option
for case insensitive searching.

John

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