[plug] Filename star

Subba Rao subb3 at attglobal.net
Wed Dec 29 11:00:39 WST 1999


On  0, Neil Gerace <geracen at wantree.com.au> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Subba Rao <subb3 at attglobal.net>
> 
> > How do you search for files, with meta characters as their names?
> 
> You could try
> 
> $ cd /
> $ ls -R \*
> 

Thanks for replying. That did not work. However,

$ find / -name "\*"

worked. Thanks anyway.

Subba Rao
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