[lug] find command or similar

[Hugh Brown]

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 12:20, Stephen G. (E-mail) wrote:
> Using current KRUD
> 
> Will someone please explain how I can find all files on a system with
> a name containing more than 200 characters?
> Or
> More then 200 characters but less than say 240?
> 

according to the man pages for find and regex you ought to be able to do
something like:


find / -regex ".*/.{200,240}" -print

but I can't get it to work right at all.

Here's a way that seems to work for my limited test case:

find / -type f | egrep ".*/.{200,240}$"

YMMV,

Hugh




> Thanks,
> 
> SGS
> 
> 
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