having trouble with ls and find finding files.

dr_zayus69 · 05-26-2005, 10:00 AM

I have tried doing searches with ls and find to find files and i get no output. I know this is possible but the thing is i know i have at least of that file and it isn't find it. I tried doing ls | grep *.jpg to find all my pics in my home directory to start sorting thru them and nothing came up when i know i have pics in there. Does anyone know why this might possibly be occuring? Any replies would be appreciated. Thanks in advanced.

Berhanie · 05-26-2005, 10:06 AM

grep uses regular expressions for its "grammar". so you can either use shell wildcards like this:

Code:

ls *.jpg

or regular expressions like this:

Code:

ls | grep ".*\.jpg"

afaiq · 05-26-2005, 10:11 AM

find . -name "*.jpg" -print

will find files in the current directory and all its subdirectories and print to the console

reddazz · 05-26-2005, 10:20 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by afaiq
find . -name "*.jpg" -print

will find files in the current directory and all its subdirectories and print to the console

On most Linux/Unix systems you probbly won't need to include "-print" when using find.

dr_zayus69 · 05-26-2005, 10:36 AM

ok i see. so i was using a special character special to grep and find that i needed to escape. thanks for the quick replies.