Re: why 'find / -name *' doesnt work ?
- From: Juha Laiho <Juha.Laiho@xxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 18:59:17 +0000 (UTC)
Alberto <hackerduero@xxxxxxxxx> said:
>I try to search for all files in system, and try:
>
>find / -name *
>
>but it doesnt work
Written exactly that way, the shell will first expand the * to list
all the files in your current directory, so what "find" sees is
find / -name file1 file2 file3
which is illegal syntax for "find".
>How do I search for all files ?
Just "find /" - or "find / -type f" if you want to restrict the
results to regular files (no directories, no symlinks, no device nodes, ...).
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