[KLUG Members] Find command fails when searching only for mp3s

Adam Tauno Williams awilliam at whitemice.org
Mon Mar 27 05:43:22 EST 2006


> I noticed that for the amount of music I have, I was hearing the same 
> few songs far too many times in any given time period.  Checking the 
> temp file showed that Ogg Vorbis files were found, as were asf and wma, 
> but no mp3.  I tried some test finds, and discovered that find wasn't 
> locating any files of type mp3:

Do you have an MP3 file in the current working directory?

> [steve at rosie ~]$ find ~/Desktop/aFewFiles/ -name *.mp3

Try: find ~/Desktop/aFewFiles/ -name "*.mp3"



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