Linux+Notes

Caution: this page will be of interest primarily to geeky linux types.


 * find** - I never was able to get find to work properly, but today it did using the following: **find ./ -iname '*.pp*'** with **-iname** searching for part of a name and using **''** to surround search string.

Moving instructor backups, starting in the WebCT **user/web-ct/courses** directory: The salient parts of this are you can 1) use at least some regex in a **ls** or **mv** operation and 2) you can move all of the files from multiple directories to another location (single directory) in a common directory structure.
 * **ls [!y]*/webct_backup/*.zip | less** -
 * **ls */webct_backup/*.zip | less** -
 * **mv ./[!y]*/webct_backup/*.zip backups** -