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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
| On Friday 14 January 2005 07:00 am, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| wrote:
|
|>I was using
|>
|>find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -iname *gentoo*
|>
|>and that didn't work. How come?? (it lists everything!)
|
|
| *gentoo* was being expanded by bash; I'm not sure why find didn't give
you
| an error.
Presumably because it wasn't an error - bash was expanding *gentoo* to a
list of files, such as;
$ find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -iname *gentoo*
bash expands to;
$ find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -iname digest-gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r31
digest-gentoo-sources-2.4.25-r15 ...
which is a valid command line. However, if no files in the current
directory had matched *gentoo* then it would no doubt have thrown an
error :)
Matt
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