

inum Find files case insensitively Find files. Also a-z doesn't match lower case letters, it matches whatever sorts between a and z in the locale (with some variation in behaviour between shell. To limit the selection to the current directory (exclude subdirectories) you can add -maxdepth 1 to the find command. The -path option concatenates the path and filename to match files. You could also use find -newer somefile or find -newermm somefile to compare the modification times to that of a reference file directly, instead of saving the reference file's timestamp in a variable. name "$" -print0)įor more information on this, please see (and upvote) Benjamin W.'s answer. Shell command: find Search in path names. (Other reasons why youd need to call a shell would be any time you need to use a shell feature like redirections, pipes, some string expansions.) In sh -c inline-script x a b c, for the inline-script, 0 is x, 1 is a, 2 is b. If desired, lastpipe can be used instead of process substitution (hat tip: Caesar): set +mįind.

Like arrays, process substitution is a feature of bash and other advanced shells. Here is one solution for getting the output of find into a bash array: array=()ĭone (.), that can be used in place of a file name where the command wants to write to the file. 12.6k 51 51 gold badges 169 169 silver badges 303 303 bronze badges. Instead, proper documentation and a new shell reserved. 7,045 3 3 gold badges 23 23 silver badges 53 53 bronze badges. Objections were raised that the real problem is misuse of the test command (), and putting it into the shell is the wrong way to fix the problem.
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If you are on Mac OS, which -last I checked- still used bash 3.2, or are otherwise using an older bash, then continue on to the next section. The KornShell-derived conditional command (double bracket ) was removed from the shell command language description in an early proposal. type f -name '-gcc') Notice that you may have more than one file that. To save output of find to GCCVERSION use process substitution: GCCVERSION (find. Note that testing whether a given user is the owner is a different proposition. If you want to look for all files that end in -gcc in the current directory it should be: find. It supports searching by file, folder, name, creation date, modification date, owner and permissions. Another option is to use a stat command, but the problem with stat from the shell is that there are multiple commands with different syntax, so stat in a shell script is unportable (even across Linux installations). It can be used to find files and directories and perform subsequent operations on them. If you have an up-to-date version of bash (4.4-alpha or better), as you probably do if you are on Linux, then you should be using Benjamin W.'s answer. Discuss The find command in UNIX is a command line utility for walking a file hierarchy.
