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yup, you're right !

find is now not even acting the way it was back when I tested/posted this, I'm running feisty fawn (herd 5). I guess they might be doing some change ..

I usually always put...

Hello kozmo,

Not that I know of, you will need to learn a little bit about regular expression

You can pass any regular expression to -name like :

find . -type f -name "[^C|c]*"

should...

you really need to look at find man page

you should be able to find file with

find /path -name "smith*"

you are able to execute any command with -exec flag to find :

find /path -name...

Just tryed on my ubuntu at home and it was working without double quotes, maybe not the correct behavior .....


snerge@sn-ubt:~$ cd /tmp
snerge@sn-ubt:/tmp$ ls
gconfd-snerge kde-snerge ...

Always a pleasure to help !

find . -name "file*" > ouput.txt

You can use the > file.txt syntax with pretty much any command ....

ls -al > result.txt
netstat -an > result.txt

so on ...

Yes it would of enventually worked. Find searches all files in all directories and sub-directories

On HP-UX, you have to enclose your query between double quotes "file*" but on linux you do not...

You don't provide much detail

You might want to have a look at the "crypt" command (available on HP-UX, don't know about other oses)

You can execute the following command at your favourite...

Actually, I would not use a semicolon anyway ...

maybe you could use "mkdir dirname && cp /path/to/file* dirname/" instead

It is still 2 commands, I don't know how to do it with one (I don't...

You might want to have a look at lsof. I don't know if it is installed by default on Solaris but I'm pretty sure you could find a package for it:

From man page :

Lsof revision 4.77 lists...

find . -type f -size +1024c

find files of type "regular file" which are bigger than 1024 bytes