I am practicing a find command and the moment, and am curious about the usage of regular expressions in the find command(similar to grep). Does the command support it? If so, what are the options to enable it?
I tried looking for it in the man pages but was unsuccessful so far.
1 Answer
From man find:
-regex pattern
File name matches regular expression pattern. This is a match
on the whole path, not a search. For example, to match a file
named `./fubar3', you can use the regular expression `.*bar.' or
`.*b.*3', but not `f.*r3'. The regular expressions understood
by find are by default Emacs Regular Expressions, but this can
be changed with the -regextype option.
