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Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2002 16:12:35 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ls -R doesn't work; V1.3.12 on Win2000
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On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 01:10:10PM -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>Jim,
>
>Apart from the fact that, as Chris F. pointed out, you and Hari seem to 
>share a misconception about how the "-R" option to "ls" works, your 
>suggestion about using grep is probably better, in this instance, than 
>involving "find" as I said you "must" do (a very poor and inaccurate choice 
>of words).
>
>You'll probably want to use the "-i" option to grep so that it matches the 
>letters in the suffixes case insensitively, since Windows doesn't care 
>about alphabetic case in any part of a file name.
>
>If you use "egrep" you can get multiple suffixes selected in a single 
>command:
>
>        ls -laR |egrep -i '.(doc|pdf|rtf)'
>
>for example.

Actually, Randall, I thought you had the better idea.  You could always
do something like:

  find . -iname '*.doc' | xargs ls -ld

That ends up only performing a 'stat()' on files which specifically match
the pattern.

cgf

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