Subject: Re: find craziness
To: xiamin <Ingerrn@cris.com>
From: Paul Goyette <paul@pgoyette.bdt.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/19/1997 12:39:48
On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, xiamin wrote:

> 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 ;(

For the find problem, try quoting the file name:

  find / -name 'pine.*'

otherwise the shell will expand pine.* using your current working
directory and probably find no matches - hence the error message!



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