[Gllug] Re: find mystery

[Ryland, Peter]

On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 09:52 +0000, Craig Millar wrote:
> 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.

The *.jpg is matched by the shell prior to running the find command, so
files in the local directory will make a difference.  For example:

$ find . -name \*.jpg
./t/3.jpg
./t/t/3.jpg
./t/t/4.jpg
./1.jpg
./2.jpg
$ find . -name *.jpg     # expands to find . -name 1.jpg 2.jpg
find: paths must precede expression
Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]
$ cd t
$ find . -name \*.jpg
./3.jpg
./t/3.jpg
./t/4.jpg
$ find . -name *.jpg     # expands to find . -name 3.jpg
./3.jpg
./t/3.jpg

Pete


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