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Re: possible bug with find
- To: Timothee Besset <timo at qeradiant dot com>,cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: possible bug with find
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:16:14 -0500
At 03:10 PM 1/16/2001, Timothee Besset wrote:
>ok, maybe I really suck at unix stuff, but I think I have a weird and buggy behaviour with find:
>
>on a linux box (standard and recent slackware installation) I'm using find:
>
>tim@lunatic:/usr/local/root_home/tim$ find --version
>GNU find version 4.1
>
>find GtkRadiant -iname *.cpp -print
>gets me all the .cpp files in my directories..
>
>if I type that in cygwin (I upgraded to the latest network install today to make sure)
>I get .. only 1 file out of the 104 it should find:
>
>administrator@DOWTEST-SGL /cygdrive/e/Loki
>$ find GtkRadiant -iname *.cpp -print
>GtkRadiant/radiant/preferences.cpp
>
>administrator@DOWTEST-SGL /cygdrive/e/Loki
>$ find -version
>GNU find version 4.1
>
>I don't see anything special about this file compared to all the others .. permissions are the same etc.
>
>unless I really suck that much with shell scripts .. I think this is a bug
>
>TTimo
Hm, I think its not. Put a backslash before the * and see if you get more
what you expect.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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