Hello,

I'm trying to use the above command to produce a list of files ending in _D_CARM. However, when I execute the above it doesn't return anything. If I try ls -l *_D_CARM it shows the contents of every directory ending in _D_CARM .

Any suggestions?!

Cheers,

JW.

find . -type f -name "*_D_CARM"

Thanks - actually meant to say I was looking for directories so just changed f to d.

Cheers!

JW

Your original command was fine, but you can't use "*" in that sense in grep. Grep uses "regular expressions" which have a different syntax than your shell's wildcards.

grep matches the requested string anywhere on a line, so just take out the *.

To say "anything at all" in regular expressions, that's dot (.) followed by asterisk (*). Dot matches one character, any character, and asterisk means repeat the previous character (or character class, or whatever) zero or more times.

To restrict to just directories, you can do

You can use the shell for filename expansion: