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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: find (too many arguments)
Message-ID: <11945@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 12 Jan 90 21:43:19 GMT
References: <22002@adm.BRL.MIL> <388@usdtsg.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <388@usdtsg.Dayton.NCR.COM> musson@usdtsg.UUCP (Scott Musson) writes:
>Can someone tell me how to get rid of the following problem?
>when I do a 'find p* -mtime +1 -print'   in a directory with a large number of
>files starting with 'p', I get find: too many arguments.

The following (not tested) should work:

	find . -mtime +1 -print | sed 's/^\.\///' | grep '^p'