[lug] Finding a File

[Hugh Brown]

On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 11:47, Michael Deck wrote:
> At 09:43 AM 5/6/2004, rm at fabula.de wrote:
> <snip>
> >  BTW, you _can_ actually use 'find' with wildcards:
> >
> >   $ find /usr/local/bin -name 'minic*'
> >
> >  Should work.
> 
> I have a question about this. I've gotten different results when I do this:
> 
>    $ find /usr/local/bin -name 'minic*'
> 
> versus when I do this:
> 
>    $ cd /usr/local/bin
>    $ find . -name 'minic*'
> 
> Very often, the first form doesn't find any files, the second form finds 
> lots. This on Mdk9.0 for sure, I think I've seen it on Fedora FC1 as well, 
> but I don't remember now.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> -Mike

In my experience the only difference you should see between doing those
to things is the prefix that you get on the matches.

 find /usr/bin/ -name 'mini*'
/usr/bin/minizip
/usr/bin/miniunzip

cd /usr/bin;find . -name 'mini*'
./minizip
./miniunzip


Hugh