On Friday 14 September 2007 10:22, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> Can someone explain the following "find" error. The "path" is
> specified by the "." in the command line.
>
> find . -name *copy_3* -exec rm {}\;
>
> find: paths must precede expression
My guess would be that the current directory contains at least two files
that match the glob pattern "*copy_3*".
In general, you should quote arguments that have the form of a glob or
regular expression pattern (or any other special shell syntax):
find . -name '*copy_3*' -exec rm {} \;
Note, too, that the semicolon that tells find where the exec argument
list ends must be a separate argument.
> --
> Ken Schneider
Randall Schulz
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