2009/3/24 Amarendra Godbole <[email protected]>: > I saw "find" behaving inconsistently while finding files on an ntfs > partition. It was unable to find files ending in .dat, but then later > on it did find those.
> OpenBSD_45$ pwd > /mnt/m0/Program Files/Norton Internet Security > OpenBSD_45$ find . -name "*.dat" > ./Branding/fallback.dat > ./Engine/16.2.0.7/ccGEvt/Global/LM.dat > ./Engine/16.2.0.7/ccGLog/ccGLog.dat > ./Engine/16.2.0.7/hnData.dat > ./Engine/16.2.0.7/Jobs/ccJobManagerSchedules.dat > ./Engine/16.2.0.7/NCOVER.dat > ./Engine/16.2.0.7/ncwTrstP.dat > ./Engine/16.2.0.7/NisVer.dat > ./Engine/16.2.0.7/NPCTray.dat > ./Engine/16.2.0.7/nppw.dat > ./Engine/16.2.0.7/service.dat > ./MUI/fallback.dat > ./MUI/maplngid.dat > OpenBSD_45$ find . -name "*.dat" > > At this point, find returns no results, even though the files exist. You must have left something out in this transcript. Both of these above find commands are exactly identical, and executed from the same folder, yet you claim they delivered different results. regards, --ropers
