On 6/15/06, The Wanderer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For the little it's worth, I also find myself wanting to do something like this from time to time, usually in a context in which find is not a satisfactory alternative - or, at best, in which it would be awkward and potentially difficult to construct a find command which would match all of the desired files and no others. (For that matter, I've just scoured the man page to find, and I do not see an option to make it print the absolute path to the file rather than the path relative to the directory from which find was invoked.)
For the record, suppose the list of things you wish to search is in the shell variable dirlist. You can then do it like this: $ dirlist="foo bar baz" $ find $( for dir in $dirlist; do ( cd $dir && pwd ) ; done ) -print /tmp/foo /tmp/foo/29452 /tmp/foo/10849 /tmp/foo/7165 /tmp/bar /tmp/bar/19148 /tmp/bar/2729 /tmp/bar/32714 /tmp/baz /tmp/baz/25967 /tmp/baz/13157 /tmp/baz/30767 _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
