[wellylug] multidot filenames

[jfouhy at paradise.net.nz]

Quoting "E.Chalaron" <e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz>:

> Hi all
> 
> I need to locate filenames with multidots on my system.
> file.ext1.ext2;
> Is there a way I can do that ? I tried find without much succes I must
> say...

locate '*.*.*' will almost do it... (it will match any file name with more than
one . in the file's path)

Hmm.

locate '*' | awk -F '/' '$NF ~ "\\..+\\."'

(change the + to a * if you want to allow files with two adjacent dots)

-- 
John.