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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users find: search regex of files? Post 302403199 by msf5042 on Thursday 11th of March 2010 07:09:16 PM
Old 03-11-2010
find: search regex of files?

I want to use the find command to search a ton of files, but I want to break it up into multiple machines. I want to search for files with "filename." in the title.
The location I want to search is:
Code:
/u/*/*/*/stuff

On the first computer I want to search:
Code:
/u/[a-i]/*/*/stuff

Right now I am doing
Code:
find /u/*/*/*/stuff -iregex "/u/[a-i]/.*filename\..*" -print >>~/Desktop/find

This works correctly on the first machine, but for the second machine i will be searching [j-p] and in this case it will still search a-i first. I really want to do something like:
Code:
find /u/[j-p]/*/*/stuff -iregex ".*filename\..*" -print >>~/Desktop/find


Anyone know if/how I could do this?
 

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hal-find(1M)						  System Administration Commands					      hal-find(1M)

NAME
hal-find, hal-find-by-capability, hal-find-by-property - search HAL global device list SYNOPSIS
hal-find-by-capability --capability capability [--help] [--verbose] [--version] hal-find-by-property --key key --string value [--help] [--verbose] [--version] DESCRIPTION
The hal-find commands, hal-find-by-capability and hal-find-by-property, search the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) device list by speci- fied criteria and displays results on the standard output. hal-find-by-capability searches by capability, such as volume or block. hal- find-by-property searches by property, such as block.is_volume or volume.disc.has_audio. OPTIONS
The following options are supported: --capability capability HAL device capability to search for. --help Display list of options. --key key The key to the property that is the basis of the search. --string value The string value associated with the property that is the basis of the search. --verbose Verbose mode. --version Display version and exit. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWhalr | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Volatile | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
hald(1M), attributes(5), hal(5) SunOS 5.11 22 Aug 2006 hal-find(1M)
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