I have a file foo in the current directory. Then I run the following commands:
find . -regex 'foo' finds nothingfind . -regex 'foo.*' finds nothingfind . -regex '.*foo' finds the fileI would expect that either of these commands should yield a positive result.
find command version is 4.4.2
from the manual:
-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 are by default Emacs Regular Expressions, but this can
be changed with the -regextype option.
The important part is: This is a match on the whole path, not a search.
So only the third regex yields the result:
./foo
'\./foo.*' then?
'\./foo' for the first :-)find actually try to match the string ./foo (differently from the -name switch) so the third pattern -regex '.*foo' have to works if the file foo have no extension.
Try to use:
``find . -regex '.*foo.*'``
And report the output.
