Re: Searching the IFS

Thanks Dennis,

I still can't make it work. Even if I start in root and give it the names of two directories I know to exist it comes straight back with nothing.

As I was in root I figured that maybe removing the leading "/" would be required. That certainly dind't come back right way - some 10 minutes later it still hadn't come back so I canned the shell session. I guess I'm just going to have to learn all this Unix c$%p because I need it more each day.

Thanks anyway - luckily Susan found what we were looking for by a more brute-force approach!


Jon Paris

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On 27-Sep-09, at 7:07 PM, midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

So after that last reply I had a nice dinner, and came up with an
alternative that is more precisely what you requested:

Find . -type d | grep -i '/myDirName/mySubDirName/$'

This has the advantage that it is not subject to the imperfect
implementation of mixed-case support inherent to QSH (the -i flag sees to
that). Also, unlike the prior solution, it won't report false positives
(such as dir1/myDirName/x/y/mySubDirName). And finally (perhaps more
importantly), it makes you right about the need for grep. ;)

HTH
Dennis