find (too many arguments)

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <388 at usdtsg.Dayton.NCR.COM> musson at usdtsg.UUCP (Scott Musson) writes:
>Can someone tell me how to get rid of the following problem?
>when I do a 'find p* -mtime +1 -print'   in a directory with a large number of
>files starting with 'p', I get find: too many arguments.

The following (not tested) should work:

	find . -mtime +1 -print | sed 's/^\.\///' | grep '^p'