Find Doesn't Find! (won't recognize some directories)

[Dougal]

I've been experiencing some problems using the "find" command.

It doesn't seem to recognize the contents of some directories, in my case some of the subdirectories of /usr/lib.

Is it me? Am I doing something wrong? Going crazy?? I'm using Puppy 2.0.0, btw.

Some examples:

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sh-3.00# find /usr/lib -name "gtk+.pc"
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/gtk+.pc

This worked, where the pkgconfig directory is part of the devx addon (pup_ro3).

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sh-3.00# find /usr/lib -name "convert.m4"

This didn't work, where convert.m4 is in the /usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/proc/m4 directory, also part of the devx addon...

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sh-3.00# find /usr/lib -name "tkv.tcl"
/usr/lib/Img1.2/tkv.tcl

Worked, /usr/lib/img1.2 is part of pup_ro2

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sh-3.00# find /usr/lib -name "uri.tcl"

This didn't work, the file actually exists in the /usr/lib/uri/ directory, which is part of the Puppy base files (pup_ro2).

I found that running something like:

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sh-3.00# find /usr/lib ! -name "mut.tcl"|more

Shows just what "find" does recognize in /usr/lib... which includes the "problematic" directories but not their contents...

So I tried searching for one of them directories as a directory:

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sh-3.00# find /usr -type d -name "perl5"
/usr/lib/perl5

Worked. Now for one of it's subdirectories:

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sh-3.00# find /usr -type d -name "5.8.0"

No...

Has anyone got any idea what this might be about??

[fluxit]

No, but I have found that Gtkfind, which worked well in 1.09CE, doesn't work in 2.01 for me. It doesn't seem to recurse directories properly.

--Lee

[GuestToo]

try the -noleaf option ... but it will run slower