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  3. September 2009

RE: Searching the IFS

Sending again, with a tad more explanation....

I know part of a directory name e.g. /myDirName/mySubDirName/ but
I don't know exactly where in the IFS the little devil is. All I
know is that someone didn't put it where they were supposed to!
So using reular wildcard cnotalion it would be
*/myDirName/mySubDirName/ * that I'm looking for. It could be
anywhere.

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




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