Re: Searching the IFS

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

www.Partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com



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