topic Re: About the find string in Operating System - HP-UX

About the find string

peterchu — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 20:51:11 GMT

I try the below find command , I want to find all the files the extension is .tmp , it seems not allow to use the -name *.tmp , could suggest what can I do ? thx

find /home/EDP -type f -name *.tmp

Re: About the find string

steven Burgess_2 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 20:55:54 GMT

Hello

find /home/EDP -type f -name "*.tmp"

You need the double quotes so the shell expands the wildcard and doesn't treat it as a literal

Regards

Steve

Re: About the find string

Sยภเl Kย๓คг — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 22:50:30 GMT

Correct you need to use doublequotes to manipulate some special cases while using wildcards.
so use
#find /home/EDP -type f -name "*.tmp" where "*.tmp" will cover all the files which has .tmp at the end of the filename.

regards
SK

Re: About the find string

Petr Simik_1 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:22:11 GMT

yes close it into strings "" or ''
you can chaing the query if you want to find more

find . -name "*.txt" -name "*.log"

Re: About the find string

Muthukumar_5 — Wed, 08 Sep 2004 23:22:32 GMT

There characters like * are wild card and we have to delimit it with \ or put in quotes on shell.

You can get it as,

find /home/EDP -type f -name \*.tmp

or

find /home/EDP -type f -name "*.tmp"

- Muthu