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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers how to search and list file with wildcard character Post 302432897 by anandapani on Sunday 27th of June 2010 11:08:53 PM
Old 06-28-2010
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Hi,
I mean, If the date is present in the file name.
 

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DWWW-FIND(8)							      Debian							      DWWW-FIND(8)

NAME
dwww-find - find documentation related to a search argument SYNOPSIS
dwww-find [--program|--menu|--documentation|--docfile|--doc-base-list] [--skip=number] argument [...] DESCRIPTION
dwww-find is part of the dwww package, which provides access to on-line documentation on a Debian system via WWW. dwww-find searches for a documentation related to a given program, for entries from Debian Documentation Menu, or at least for documents registered with doc-base. It returns a HTML-formatted document with search results. OPTIONS
--program Search for documentation (man pages, info files, etc.) related to program specified by argument. --menu Search for entries in Debian Documentation Menu pages generated by dwww-build-menu(8). --documentation Search in documentation files registered with doc-base. It uses search++(1) for searching. --docfile Search for documentation for package, which contains the file specified by the argument. The file must be located in or below a directory that has been allowed by the system administrator; see dwww(7) for more info. --doc-base-list Show list of registerered doc-base files for given argument, which should be specified as format/document-id, where document-id is an identificator of registered doc-base document, and format is a name of format (e.g. text or pdf) registered by the document, for which the list list is to be generated. --skip=number Works only with --documentation. Skip number of search results. When no options are specified, --program is assumed. FILES
/etc/dwww/dwww.conf Configuration file for dwww. SEE ALSO
dwww(7), dwww-quickfind(8), dwww-build-menu(8), dwww-index++(8), search++(1), Debian doc-base Manual in /usr/share/doc/doc-base/doc-base.html/index.html. AUTHORS
Lars Wirzenius. Robert Luberda. See dwww(7) for copyrights and stuff. dwww 1.11.4 January 15th, 2011 DWWW-FIND(8)
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