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John Beckett wrote:
> 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
>

updatedb as root

I tend to have a script wot runs every night & does general tidying up
including calling updatedb.

Adam

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