[Gllug] Re: find mystery

[Jack Bertram]

* Craig Millar <me at craigmillar.org> [060504 10:52]:
> On 04/05/06 10:47 +0100, Paul M wrote:
> > On 04/05/06, Craig Millar <gllug at craigmillar.org> wrote:
> > >I'm having trouble with find, as demonstrated:
> > 
> > quote the wildcard:  "*.jpg"
> 
> Thanks Paul and Martin, that works. But any idea why it works without quotes 
> in other folders? What could be tripping it up? There's no "*.jpg" files in
> the Documents folder with unusual names/characters/spaces. Bah. Confused.

It will work whenever there are no jpg files in the current directory,
as the shell globbing will not expand *.jpg

Whenever there are jpg files in the current directory, the shell will
expand *.jpg to a space-separated list of those files before passing to
the find command.

You should read up on shell globbing and how it works.

jack
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