[ILUG] it started out as a question about the find utility

[Cobra]

Hey, 
 Man page for FIND, you can get at this link
http://man.he.net/?topic=find&section=all
 I don't know the exacts args you would need to do what you want. And
haven't time to
 find it just yet.

 But you'll find what you need at that link anyway.  

 As for those characters coming up. I don't know much about them either. But
does it happen
 on any other commands or output?

 As in, is it a global problem, or just localized to certain files and
command outputs.

 Cobby. 

-----Original Message-----
From: ilug-bounces at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-bounces at linux.ie] On Behalf Of
bryan hunt
Sent: 10 April 2004 23:22
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: [ILUG] it started out as a question about the find utility


I was going to ask the following question of the group ...

"Does anyone know how to get 'find' to return all files older than a certain
age.

But I decided that I shouldn't be so lazy, so I called 'man find' to find
the solution myself.  I read through the man page but a lot of the text was
unreadable.

It looked like the text below ... I don't know much about charactersets so
perhaps it will look normal to some of you.

snip=
 Like -name, but the match is case insensitive.  For example, the
              patterns âfo*â and âF??â match  the  file  names  âFooâ,
âFOOâ,
              âfooâ, âfOoâ, etc.
=snip

In addition I when I run the following command 'pstree -a' I get the
following unreadable crap.

snip=
 ââcourierlogger imapd
  ââcourierlogger imapd-ssl
  ââcouriertcpd -address=127.0.0.1
-stderrlogger=/usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/courierlogger -stderrlog
  ââcouriertcpd -address=0
-stderrlogger=/usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/courierlogger -stderrloggername=
  â   ââcouriertls -server -tcpd /usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/imaplogin 
/usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/
  â   â   ââimapd Maildir
  â   ââcouriertls -server -tcpd /usr/lib/courier-imap/sbin/imaplogin 
/usr/lib/courier-imap/libexec/authlib/
=snip

I'm running Redhat enterprise linux 3.0, anyone with a better knowledge (
mine is non-existant ) of charactersets and all that crap have any idea what
I'm doing wrong ?

--B


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