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RE: possible bug with find
- To: "'gerrit dot haase at t-online dot de'" <gerrit dot haase at t-online dot de>
- Subject: RE: possible bug with find
- From: Heribert Dahms <heribert_dahms at icon-gmbh dot de>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 22:18:30 +0100
- Cc: 'Timothee Besset' <timo at qeradiant dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
WHAT?!: e.g. HP-UX 10.20 happens to have
$ ll /usr/*h
lr-xr-xr-t 1 root sys 14 Jul 13 1998 /usr/keysh ->
/usr/lib
/keysh
thus
$ (cd /usr;find include -name *h)
finds nothing, since find is really invoked as
$ (cd /usr;find include -name keysh)
So unprotected * is passed only literally if the shell
FAILS to expand the wildcard in the current dir!
It needs to be quoted to work:
$ (cd /usr;find include -name '*h'|head -3)
include/sys/cmn_err.h
include/sys/sad.h
include/sys/stream.h
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerrit Peter Haase [SMTP:gerrit@familiehaase.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 22:56
> To: Heribert Dahms
> Cc: 'Timothee Besset'; cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: possible bug with find
>
> Heribert Dahms schrieb:
> >
> > Hi Timo,
> >
> > no bug, user error: On every *ix you normally need quotation to prevent
> the
> > shell from file globbing (wildcard expansion) before involing programs,
> like
> >
> > find GtkRadiant -iname '*.cpp' -print
>
> WHAT???
>
> $ find include -iname *.h -print
>
> include/ansidecl.h
> include/bfd.h
[Heribert] [snip]
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