James Youngman wrote: > The Wanderer 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.
Could you give an example? The find command has a rich feature set and I am having a hard time imagining a case such as you describe. > >(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.) Does this work for you? find $PWD > 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 > ... That is cool. But it seems more complicated than needed. Is that simply to avoid printing the current directory? I feel certain I am missing a critical item here. find $PWD/* Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-findutils mailing list Bug-findutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils
