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Old 01-21-2010, 07:29 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by chrism01 View Post
@GrapefruiTgirl: that's probably because '*' in most regex engines means zero or more instances of the preceding character ...
I'll hazard a guess and say what she meant was
Code:
find / -type d -regextype posix-awk -iregex '.+/x[^/]*'
 
  


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