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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers List files of arbitrary depth according to a given pattern Post 302992789 by Don Cragun on Wednesday 1st of March 2017 01:58:20 PM
Old 03-01-2017
When you use *.c and *.h without quotes, they are expanded by the shell before find ever sees them as operands. And, there is no need for any options for what you're trying to do. What you need is an expression that tells find what you want it to do.

To list files in the file hierarchy rooted in the current working directory that have names ending in .c or .h, that would be something like:
Code:
find . \( -name '*.c' -o -name '*.h' \)

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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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