[BL] Hard Copy
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3aoo-cvfd at dea.spamcon.org
Tue Feb 6 20:26:36 EST 2007
Greg Mayman wrote:
>
> What it does NOT explain is the correct form to make a search
> that would find 'filename' which _might_ have an extension.
find / -name filename*
> Since I did not know whether 'wp' had an extension or not,
> I needed to cover both forms.
find / -name wp*
> Obviously I did it wrongly.
You put a . in your search which therefore only returns
filenames that have a . in that position.
Cheers,
Steven
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