[wellylug] multidot filenames

[andrej 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...

find ~  -iregex ".*/[a-zA-Z0-9]*\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*\.[a-zA-Z0-9]**"
If you have "funny" characters like " " or "$" in the 
filenames you'll obviously want to include them :}

Or
locate * | xargs -i basename {} | egrep -e ".*\..*\..*"



> Thanks
> E
> 
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