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Reputation: 1517

"Illegal option" error when using find on macOS

I am trying to list the files only with the letter "R" at the end. I used find as follows in macOS Terminal,

find -type f -name '*R'

But I got the message saying illegal option --t.

Upvotes: 52

Views: 33563

Answers (1)

rob mayoff
rob mayoff

Reputation: 385690

The first argument to find is the path where it should start looking. The path . means the current directory.

find . -type f -name '*R'

You must provide at least one path, but you can actually provide as many as you want:

find ~/Documents ~/Library -type f -name '*R'

Upvotes: 70

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