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# 8  
Old 04-19-2011
Yes, the regex matches the whole path.

But if you know where you want find to search, why not just give find those directories in the first place? Much less work for find to do.
# 9  
Old 04-20-2011
I have had times when I would have liked to know how to do both. That's why I asked, I don't really need it now but I'm sure I will later.
# 10  
Old 04-20-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by stevensw
I have had times when I would have liked to know how to do both. That's why I asked, I don't really need it now but I'm sure I will later.
How about a nested find command...
Code:
find start_dir -name "dirname_regexp" -type d -exec find {} -name "somefile" \;

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# 11  
Old 04-20-2011
Yea that looks interesting, but looks like it could take a while to run. Probably want the pathname of start_dir to be as long as possible.
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