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Old 11-13-2012
[Solved] Wildcards used in find, ls and grep commands

Platforms : Solaris 10 and RHEL 5.6

I always get double quotes , single quotes and asteriks mixed up for find, ls and grep commands.

The below commands retrieve the correct results. But , unders stress , I get all these mixed up Smilie .So, i wanted to get a clear picture.

Please check if my assumptions mentioned below are correct. The below tests are conducted in Solaris 10

I. find Command
For find command, the wildcard character is asterik and it should be enclosed in double quotes.
Code:
$ touch KLS.dmp
$
$
$
$ find ./ -name "K*.dmp" 2> /dev/null
./KLS.dmp
$
$
$
$
$ find ./ -name "K*.dmp*" 2> /dev/null
./KLS.dmp

-- Single quotes work too
$ find ./ -name 'K*.dmp*' 2> /dev/null
./KLS.dmp

II. grep Command
For grep, the wildcard character is asterik and it should be enclosed in single quotes.
Code:
$ echo "blue skies" > MyFile.txt
$
$
$ cat MyFile.txt
blue skies
$
$
$ grep blu* *.txt
blue skies
$
$
$ grep 'blu*' *.txt
blue skies

III. ls Command

For ls command, wildcard character is again asterik, but don't use single quotes or Double quotes.

Code:
$ ls -alrt M*
-rw-r--r--   1 oracle   oinstall      11 Nov 13 11:37 MyFile.txt
$
$
$
$ ls -alrt "M*"
M*: No such file or directory
$
$ ls -alrt 'M*'
M*: No such file or directory
$

 

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NAME
jfs_logdump - dump a JFS formatted device's journal log SYNOPSIS
jfs_logdump [ -a ] device DESCRIPTION
jfs_logdump dumps the contents of the journal log from the specified JFS formatted device into output file ./jfslog.dmp. device is the special file name corresponding to the actual device from which the journal log will be dumped (e.g. /dev/hdb1 ). jfs_logdump must be run as root. OPTIONS
-a Dump the entire contents of the journal log instead of just the committed transactions since the last synch point. EXAMPLE
Dump the entire JFS journal log from the 3rd partition of the 2nd hard disk into ./jfslog.dmp: jfs_logdump -a /dev/hdb3 REPORTING BUGS
If you find a bug in JFS or jfs_logdump, please report it via the bug tracking system ("Report Bugs" section) of the JFS project web site: http://jfs.sourceforge.net/ Please send as much pertinent information as possible, including any jfs_logdump error messages and the complete output of running jfs_fsck with the -v option on the JFS device. SEE ALSO
jfs_fsck(8), jfs_mkfs(8), jfs_fscklog(8), jfs_tune(8), jfs_debugfs(8) AUTHORS
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