[Linux-disciples] Clear out gnutella

[Karl Sokol]

I am still trying to learn basic syntax. When looking for ./fubar3, what 
does the second "." mean in the search ".*b.*3"? I have noticed that if I 
fill space with a letter that it gets ignored as well.

On 7/28/05, Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 09:52:16PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> > I guess the best way would be
> > find ~ -iregex '.*stuff.*'
> > which would catch both stuff that starts with a dot and stuff that
> > doesn't.
> 
> Hot damn. I had no idea about '-iregex'. I've always assumed
> that 'find' just used shell regexes and couldn't use regular
> regexes. Thanks for pointing that out, Adam.
> 
> Just for completeness, below are the relevant parts of the
> manpage for find(1).
> 
> -iregex pattern
> Like -regex, but the match is case insensitive.
> 
> [...]
> 
> -regex pattern
> File name matches regular expression pattern. This is a match
> on the whole path, not a search. For example, to match a file
> named ./fubar3, you can use the regular expression .*bar. or
> .*b.*3, but not f.*r3. The regular expressions understood
> by find follow the conventions for the re_match system library
> function where this is present (i.e. on systems using the GNU C
> Library). On other systems, the implementation within Gnulib is
> used; by default, Gnulib provides basic regular expressions.
> 
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