[ale] find command and customization

John Pilman jcpilman at gmail.com
Mon Aug 1 08:43:06 EDT 2011


I usually avoid re-writing the common commands. Instead I pick a
similar name.  In this case it would be 'f'.

alias f='find . -maxdepth -type f -name'

now
f "whatever"
will only search the pwd.  This may not be exactly what you need, but
maybe it gets you a step closer.

...John

On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 11:52 PM, David Tomaschik
<david at systemoverlord.com> wrote:
> On 07/31/2011 10:18 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
>> Friends:
>>
>> I use find command a lot these days and each time I have to type find
>> $(pwd) -name "whatever" -print
>>
>> I want to just  type find . -name "whatever" -print and it should do
>> find $(pwd).  Any idea how to overwrite the find function.
>>
>> -Narahari
>>
>
> Why aren't you doing find . -name "whatever"?  find . and find $(pwd)
> are equivalent, as . means the current working directory.
>
> David
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