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From: Stephen Samuel <samuel@bcgreen.com>
Subject: Re: question on "find"
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:17:13 -0700
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To: Tony Gogoi <tgogoi@cse.Buffalo.EDU>, linux-newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>

The easiest would be to just 'find . '
That tells it to search in the current dirctory (and also
find hidden files in the current directory, which "find *" won't)

I don't see why  "Doc - PDF" would cause you
problems, but I can see "-pdf doc" causing a problem,
because the leading '-' makes the filename look like a
find search option (and all other filenames after that
are evaluated in that context).

That can be worked around by using './*' instead of '*'
(replace '*' with any globbing pattern)
This would keep the first character of a filename from
ever being a "-"

Tony Gogoi wrote:
> I have another question.
> 
> "find ./*" displays recursively all files in this and its sub-directories.
> 
> However for some files that were ftp'ed from a Windows system eg.
> something like in the one of the directories
> "(Doc - PDF) My Document.pdf"
> would cause "find *" to display "invalid predicate...." .
> How can I overcome this problem ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Thanks Mike and Raju for ur earlier responses.
> 
> 
> 
> Tony Gogoi
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