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Old 10-11-2019, 09:48 AM   #1
smartdba
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Red face "find: unknown predicate" with folder names


Hi

I have several folders with starting with a "-" in the folder names. They work with most commands, but the find command fails with and unknown predicate. I tried single quotes, double quotes, e\ etc.. but no luck.

Folder example

drwxrwxr-x 2 user group 6 Oct 11 10:33 - test

[user@machine ~]$ find "- test" -name "*.jpeg"
find: unknown predicate `- test'

[user@machine ~]$ find '- test' -name "*.jpeg"
find: unknown predicate `- test'


Please help!

Joe
 
Old 10-11-2019, 09:58 AM   #2
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find "./- test" -name "*.jpg"
 
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Old 10-11-2019, 10:00 AM   #3
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Thank you very much Ser. It worked perfectly.
 
  


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