[ILUG] find question

[admin at revoltingdigits.com]

Paolo Marchiori wrote:

>bryan hunt, Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 02:56:52PM +0200:
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>>find /home/**/Maildir/.spam/{cur,new}
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>you risk getting an "argument list too long". Try
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>find /home -type d -path '*Maildir/.spam/{cur,new}'
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>instead.
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>p.
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That worked when written as

find /home -type d -path '**Maildir/.spam/{cur,new}' 

Thanks for the tip, that would have turned into one of 
those strange bugs that would have come back to haunt me 
in a years time.

--B