I thank all of you for your response.
It turns out that my example file is in /usr/bin, which is in a different
partition than /. And 'find' will not search across partition boundaries. I
found this by trial and error.
Both command lines
a.) find /usr -iname "j*" -xdev -print; and
b.) find /usr -iname j\* -xdev -print
give the correct results.
I'm just surprised that none of the reference books that I have make
reference to searching across partition boundaries or using "j*' or j\*. My
reference books show examples of using file names with out the quotation
marks or the escape characters.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Creech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Redhat Mail-List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: find-command
>Try:
>
> find . -name 'j*'
>
>
>On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, jwalsh wrote:
>
>> The error message is saying the find command isn't found?
>> Even if it didn't find your file, there should be plenty of others
>> matching that pattern.
>> I can only assume the message read the command wasn't found, which case
it
>> is a path problem or library problem.
>> J.
>>
>> On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, 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.
>> >
>>
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