Subject: Re: find craziness
To: xiamin <Ingerrn@cris.com>
From: None <briggs@puma.macbsd.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/19/1997 15:34:05
> heh when i do find / -name pine.* -print it exits immediatly and reports
> that there is No Match. find / -name pine -print works fine. when i uuuuse
> any sort off wild card it doesnt eeven click thee hard drive, it jst qits.
> stpied key between y and i doesnt work ;(

You are probably using a C-shell.  The shell is trying to expand
'pine.*' for you before starting the find command.  To prevent that,
you can put the pine.* in quotes or use pine.\* to escape the wildcard.

-allen

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              Allen Briggs - end killing - briggs@macbsd.com