[bacchus]

Hey can anyone out there detail out for me how I would inside of terminal go searching for the .trashes folders inside my system?

Not quite clear on how I might just search them out, without knowing paths.

Thanks

[Turias]

Well, it is located at /.Trashes

If you want to know how to find a file via the terminal, use the find command. For example:

find / -regex .*Trashes.*
find / | grep Trashes

will both find files with the string "Trashes" in the title.

'/' is the root at which to start searching, so if you want to only look in your home folder, use '~/' instead.

[Moonray]

You need to put that in quotes:

find / -regex ".*Trashes.*"

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[Turias]

Originally posted by Moonray:
You need to put that in quotes:

find / -regex ".*Trashes.*"

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No you don't.

[Moonray]

Originally posted by Turias:
No you don't.

I do, believe me, and for those who don't the quotes won't hurt.

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[Turias]

Originally posted by Moonray:
I do, believe me, and for those who don't the quotes won't hurt.

Funny. I don't need them in 10.3.2 or RedHat 9. I don't know what OS/Shell you're using. True, you need to use them if you use strange characters like spaces, but the ones that I posted should not need quotes.

EDIT: Well, after a little testing I turns out you don't need them in bash, but do need them in tcsh. But, pffff, who uses tcsh, anyway?

[Moonray]

I do, and it is of course the far superior shell for interactive use (and you don't have to think about when it expands a * and when not because it always does).

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