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Post 302527561 by Corona688 on Friday 3rd of June 2011 03:08:07 PM
06-03-2011
You haven't enclosed anything? 
We know you want to search in all folders inside something. That's what find does. It searches and shows everything inside the folder you wanted. find . by itself would print every directory and file it finds, starting in the current directory and working up. By adding more restrictions to find, you narrow down what it finds into what you want.
I think just -name by itself may have been too restrictive -- I doubt you have any files named just 'name'. -name 'name' wouldn't even find 'name.jpg'.
How about find /path/to/images -iname '*rose*', that should find more. -iname is better than -name because it's case insensitive. Linux filenames are case sensitive, unlike Windows ones.
We know you want to search in all folders inside something. That's what find does. It searches and shows everything inside the folder you wanted. find . by itself would print every directory and file it finds, starting in the current directory and working up. By adding more restrictions to find, you narrow down what it finds into what you want.
I think just -name by itself may have been too restrictive -- I doubt you have any files named just 'name'. -name 'name' wouldn't even find 'name.jpg'.
How about find /path/to/images -iname '*rose*', that should find more. -iname is better than -name because it's case insensitive. Linux filenames are case sensitive, unlike Windows ones.
Last edited by Corona688; 06-03-2011 at 04:18 PM..
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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
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