Yes, what Ron said does also apply to bash. You'd need the quotes. Thanks, Ron. Miark ----- Original Message ----- From: Ron Bouwhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Find Command > Careful! The Unix shell tries to "glob" wildcards > before initiating the command - basically expand them > out in the current directory. (Glob is a transitive > verb - I glob, you glob, he, she, it is globbing) ;-) > > Thus in Miark's find command example, if there's a > file in the current directory called, say thread, then > you'll find that Unix ends up expanding the wildcards > and running: find /usr -name thread - which is not > what you want. > > So, if you don't want inadvertent globbing, you must > quote the wildcard viz: find /usr -name "*read*" > > Of course, bash may be different - I'm an old ksh and > sh user(never liked csh). Will try this at home > tonight (if I remember). > > Regards, > Ron. > > --- Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This should work: find /usr -name *read* > > > > Miark > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: SoloCDM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Linux-Mandrake Newbie > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 6:53 AM > > Subject: [newbie] Find Command > > > > > > > How is it possible to force the find command to > > list all files with > > > "read" in the filename, regardless whether they > > start with a period > > > or not? > > > > > > I already tried the following: > > > > > > find /usr -iname ".*read*" -iname "*read*" > > -type f -print > > > > > > -- > > > Note: When you reply to this message, please > > include the mailing > > > list/newsgroup address and my email address > > in To:. > > > > > > > > > ********************************************************************* > > > Signed, > > > SoloCDM > > > > > > > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from > > MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from > MandrakeSoft? > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger > http://im.yahoo.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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