[Tutor] Re: cd reader

[Derrick 'dman' Hudson]

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On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 04:29:02AM +0100, lumbricus@gmx.net wrote:
| Hi!
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| > Depending on how you want the output formatted, either
| >     $ find /cdrom -name \* -print > the_file_list.txt
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| '-name \*' has no effect=20

I don't think 'find' is happy without some condition specified.

| except that it doesn't find files beginning with a '.',

Oops.  Right.

| which may not be desired by the OP.
| To get only ordinary files the OP may use '-type f'.

Which will (as you implied) omit directories.  The next question is
whether or not the listing should have directories listed explicitly
or only implicitly as part of other files' paths.

-D

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