question on find

pfunk · 07-09-2002, 01:12 PM

I was looking for a libc file on my computer to determine what version of libc I have ... I found it but I ran into this while I was looking:

when I typed:

find /lib -name libc

it didn't find the libc libraries in the /lib directory. So I thought I should try something like this:

find /lib -name libc*

and then it gave me an error saying that the path must proceed the expression.

I don't get it. How would one use the find command to find all the libc libraries? thanks,

p

neo77777 · 07-09-2002, 01:33 PM

Try locate
locate libc
will give you all the libc references.

neo77777 · 07-09-2002, 01:35 PM

and the find command should work fine unless you feed an extra space between / and lib and didn't misspell anything, just make sure you type it in exactly as you posted, it must work. And if still no go then try to put double quotes around libc*

Road · 07-09-2002, 04:51 PM

Your find looked so good I decided to try it.

[root@web1 etc]# find /lib -name libc*
/lib/i686/libc-2.2.4.so
/lib/i686/libc.so.6
/lib/libc-2.2.4.so
/lib/libc.so.6
/lib/libcrypt-2.2.4.so
/lib/libcrypt.so.1
/lib/libcom_err.so.2
/lib/libcom_err.so.2.0
/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.6b
/lib/libcrypto.so.2

I know that does not help your problem but maybe try it again?

mikek147 · 07-10-2002, 05:27 AM

Depending on the shell, or OS, the wildcard character can be interpreted by the shell and not the command. To insure this doesn't happen, preceed the wildcard character with a backslash character as:

find /lib -name libc\*

It's also good practice to add the -print switch as:

find /lib -name libc\* -print

-mk