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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers [Solved] weird in find -exec command Post 302695279 by Lem on Sunday 2nd of September 2012 01:05:09 PM
Old 09-02-2012
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Originally Posted by alister
If it works as it should, it will also be deleting/listing files that do not match the pattern *test*. That pattern is expanded by the shell and its result are the operands where find will begin its searches.
No. That pattern it's a directory tree path rooted at each given file name , so it's not necessarily a directory inside which find will begin its searches.

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SYNOPSIS
find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-D debugopts] [-Olevel] [path...] [expression]

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the GNU version of find. GNU find searches the directory tree
rooted at each given file name [...]
Of course if the OP has a file whose path is, for instance, /tmp/AtestB/johndoe, it will be matched as well (according to the other tests).

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As vbe stated, files with that pattern need to be matched, -name '*test*' should be used.
It should != it must. Smilie

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If rm is not unlinking file1, file2, and file3, it is because of a lack of privilege, but not for a lack of trying.
No, I'm sorry. Try yourself.
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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN

locate

LOCATE(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 LOCATE(1)

NAME

     locate -- find files

SYNOPSIS

     locate [-d dbpath] pattern

DESCRIPTION

     locate searches a database for all pathnames which match the specified pattern.  The database is recomputed periodically, and contains the
     pathnames of all files which are publicly accessible.

     Shell globbing and quoting characters (``*'', ``?'', ``'', ``['' and ``]'') may be used in pattern, although they will have to be escaped
     from the shell.  Preceding any character with a backslash (``'') eliminates any special meaning which it may have.  The matching differs in
     that no characters must be matched explicitly, including slashes (``/'').

     As a special case, a pattern containing no globbing characters (``foo'') is matched as though it were ``*foo*''.

     Options:

     -d dbpath
	   Sets the list of databases to search to dbpath which can name one or more database files separated by ``:'', an empty component in the
	   list represents the default database.  The environment variable LOCATE_PATH has the same effect.

EXIT STATUS

     locate exits with a 0 if a match is found, and >0 if no match is found or if another problem (such as a missing or corrupted database file)
     is encountered.

FILES

     /var/db/locate.database	   Default database
     /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb  Script to update database.

SEE ALSO

     find(1), fnmatch(3), weekly.conf(5)

     Woods, James A., "Finding Files Fast", ;login, 8:1, pp. 8-10, 1983.

HISTORY

     The locate command appeared in 4.4BSD.

BSD
								   April 5, 2003							       BSD
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