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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Descending directory hierarchy?
Keywords: directory list find search
Message-ID: <1989Dec2.135436.22689@virtech.uucp>
Date: 2 Dec 89 13:54:36 GMT
References: <1372@lakesys.lakesys.com>
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In article <1372@lakesys.lakesys.com>, johnb@lakesys.lakesys.com (John C. Burant) writes:
> I've been thinking about the find command on SysV's... the one that makes you
> type find / name [filename] -print to find files, and only finds files with
> the exact filename specified... and I've been thinking about writing a program
> that will act like the BSD find... it list all files with the phrase you look
> for in the filename... (like if I looked for t, I'd get a lot of files listed)
> 
> Which brings me to the question: Is there a way to descend the directory 
> hierachy into every directory, or do I have to write a routine to do that?

First of all the -name parameter to find acts the same way in both system V
and in BSD.  In either system, if you did a "find / -name t -print" you \
would only find files that are named 't', not files that have a 't' in thier
names.  

To search for a file with a 't' in the name, you need to do the following:

	find / -name "*t*" -print..

Again, this is the same for both system V and BSD.


Second, System V has an ftw(3) "File Tree Walk" routine that can be used 
to descend the entire directory hierarchy.




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