[ale] find command and customization

[Narahari 'n' Savitha]

If I use find . t hen I wont get the full path in the output it provides.

If I do a find in the home folder.

If I do find . -name a.txt -print I see
./a/b/c/d/a.txt
If I do f $(pwd) -name a.txt -print
/home/coolguy/a/b/c/d/a.txt

See that /home/coolguy, it is important. for me.

-Narahari
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:44 AM, John Pilman <jcpilman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oops, I left out the maxdepth specification:
>
> alias f='find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name'
>
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 8:43 AM, John Pilman <jcpilman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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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