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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Why regex pattern doesn't work in find? Post 302789905 by Corona688 on Thursday 4th of April 2013 12:04:09 PM
Old 04-04-2013
This baffled me at first too, so I checked the source:

Code:
       -regex pattern
              File  name  matches regular expression pattern.  This is a match
              on the whole path, not a search.  For example, to match  a  file
              named `./fubar3', you can use the regular expression `.*bar.' or
              `.*b.*3', but not `f.*r3'.  The regular  expressions  understood
              by  find  are by default Emacs Regular Expressions, but this can
              be changed with the -regextype option.

I can see that this'd be inconvenient sometimes... I don't know why they did that.

You can specify multiple -file types instead, like:

Code:
'(' -name 'rvlogs*' -o -name 'main*' ')'

 

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