Re: dir /s *.* equivalent for unix.

[Hannu Koivisto <azure@iki.fi>]

Christopher Barry <cbarry@2xtreme.net> writes:

| best way to do this? The equivalent in DOS would be "dir /s *.whatever"
| but this doesn't work with ls like "ls -R *.deb", for instance. I can do
| "ls -R | more" and then use more's search ability but this is getting
| tiring. Man page isn't too helpful either.

If you mean ls man page, then you are correct and there's even a
good explanation. This is because in Unix wildcard expansion is
usually shell's job (unlike in DOS or Win32). The others already
gave you pretty shell-neutral solutions, but here's how the
wanted result can be achieved if you are using zsh
(recommended!):

ls **/*.deb

Just in case there could be directories ending with ".deb", then 
you could be more precise:

ls **/*.deb(.)

or if you want exactly those directories:

ls **/*.deb(/)

zsh manual pages or the texinfo version tells you all this and
much more.

//Hannu


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