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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Remove ./ from result when i do find Post 302883692 by VasuKukkapalli on Wednesday 15th of January 2014 02:44:33 PM
Old 01-15-2014
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Hi All,

When i do find command i am getting result which append ./ before the file name. For example if i am trying to search aaa.txt in current directory i am using find like this:

Code:
$ find . -name aaa.txt

result:

./aaa.txt

Now i want to remove "./" from the file name. Can some body help me to update this result?

Thanks
Vasu
 

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