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RE: find -name when name contains a slash


From: Avis, Ed
Subject: RE: find -name when name contains a slash
Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 10:51:39 +0100

James Youngman wrote:

>$ ./find . -name quux/umsp
>./find: warning: Unix filenames usually don't contain slashes 
>(though pathnames do).  That means that '-name quux/umsp' will 
>probably evaluate to false all the time on this system.  You 
>might find the '-wholename' test more useful, or perhaps 
>'-samefile'.  Alternatively, if you are using GNU grep, you 
>could use 'find ... -print0 | grep -FzZ quux/umsp'.

What implementation of find has this -wholename predicate?

-- 
Ed Avis <address@hidden>




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