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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting searching different multiple directories Post 302502463 by Skrynesaver on Tuesday 8th of March 2011 03:40:14 AM
Old 03-08-2011
You can supply multiple paths to GNU find and Solaris find (SunOS 5.10)
eg.
Code:
ls -R test/
test/:
dir1  dir2  dir3

test/dir1:
test.txt

test/dir2:
test.txt

test/dir3:
test.txt
~/ $ find test/dir1 test/dir2 -name \*.txt
test/dir1/test.txt
test/dir2/test.txt

Last edited by Skrynesaver; 03-08-2011 at 04:44 AM.. Reason: spellink and test on Solaris
 

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NAME

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