[Gllug] Re: find mystery

[Craig Millar]

On 04/05/06 10:56 +0100, Jack Bertram wrote:
> 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.

Thanks Jack and Peter for your explanations - confused no longer!

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

Will do.

Craig
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