Unix Shell - Re: How do I find file "findme" in tree "bigtree" searching only s

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Re: How do I find file "findme" in tree "bigtree" searching only s

James Michael Fultz

2007-08-21, 7:24 pm

* Chris Allen <ca.allen@gmail.com>:
> How do I find file "findme" in tree "bigtree" searching only
> subdirectories named "in_here"? I've been pulling my hair out for an
> hour or so trying to figure out how to do this with the find command.
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$ find bigtree -print
bigtree
bigtree/not_here
bigtree/not_here/findme
bigtree/in_here
bigtree/in_here/findme
bigtree/findme

$ find bigtree -wholename '*/in_here/*' -name findme -print
bigtree/in_here/findme

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James Michael Fultz <xyzzy@sent.as.invalid>
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