Re: Passing directories and files

Although if I know the filename, I would not need to call the find command, and just pass the filename to HEAD, TAIL, or AWK.




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On Thursday, May 26th, 2022 at 6:51 AM, goncholden <[email protected]> wrote:


> This means that I can use
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> find $filename -type f -print0
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> with no harm?
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> On Thursday, May 26th, 2022 at 6:32 AM, Bernhard Voelker [email protected] wrote:
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> > On 5/25/22 19:53, goncholden wrote:
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> > > Customarily people use the -name option for specific file names.
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> > True, but as directories are also files, the -name condition could
> > also filter for specific directory names.
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> > Have a nice day,
> > Berny