Re: Problem with the find command

From: Alan Connor (xxxxxx_at_xxxx.xxx)
Date: 07/29/03 

Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:29:53 GMT

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:28:38 +0100, Lekeas GK <cj571@soi.city.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I was trying to find all css files under my directory and I noticed that
> the following commands worked fine:
>
> find . -name '*.css' -print 2>/dev/null

> find ~foo/* -name '*.css' -print 2>/dev/null
>
surprised that that one worked.

> but the following ones didn't:
>
> find ~foo -name '*.css' -print 2>/dev/null

I would think that one would.

> find /homes/foo -name '*.css' -print 2>/dev/null
>
> Is the search not meant to be recursive by default?
>

Yes. At least GNU find is.

But I have found it to be pretty quirky.

Is the ~ there in the actual dir name? That's a special character of sorts to
the shell and other apps.

Alan 

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