On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 02:58:24PM -0600, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2024, 2:46 PM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > > Greetings; > > > > I have misplaced file someplace in /home/gene. > > its name is bpim5*shelf.scad > > > > Assuming that you are searching in the current working directory: > find bpim* -print | grep 'shelf.scad'
That's not correct. The argument(s) that immediately follow find should be the starting point(s) where it will begin its search. Normally these would be directories, especially the "." directory, which is actually the default in GNU find (but not a default in POSIX find). This command would only work if the file Gene's looking for happens to be in his home directory, *or*, if the file he's looking for happens to be underneath a *directory* whose name matches the bpim* glob. This is possible, but I wouldn't count on it.
