On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 11:20:16PM -0600, Mike Friedrichs wrote:
> I have a executable file called jstar in /usr/bin, but when I enter 'find
> / -iname j*' I receive the message 'not found'.
>
> Is there any obvious reasons why this command doesn't function as
> prescribed. This is on Redhat 5.2.
The command as you've shown it to us is processed thusly:
-The shell expands the wildcard,
-then passes the result to the find program.
This isn't what you wanted. What you want is for find to see the literal
'*j'. There are several ways to do this, the one I commonly use is:
find / -iname j\* -print
The '\' tells the shell to pass following character literally to
the program, to not do anything else with it.
Fred
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