Uh, no, Charles, it doesn't. I even just tested to be sure, on
a PPro box running RH5.2. (I thought someone might be teaching
this old dog a new trick I didn't know, and one that would make
some scripts that I've written over the years a bit buggier...
after all, I'm not so much a fossil that I don't learn from
others daily! :)
wew 9:52:34am machine:~>touch dead.letters
wew 9:52:41am machine:~>touch dead_letters
wew 9:52:47am machine:~>touch deadaletters
wew 9:52:52am machine:~>find . -name "dead.letters" -print
./dead.letters
wew 9:53:11am machine:~>
(Only change that I made was to remove the name of the machine
and replace it with "machine".)
Now, if I had typed
find . -name dead?letters -print
I would have gotten all three....
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Galpin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 8:29 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: recipient.list.not.shown; @nswcphdn.navy.mil
Subject: Re: script
actually, the '.' will match any character. So it will also match
dead_letters, dead-letters, deadaleters etc.
hth charles
On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Vidiot wrote:
> >find / -name "dead.letters" -exec rm {} /;
> >
> >Note, all of that has to be there.
> >HTH, HAND
> >Bill Ward
>
> The double-quotes are not necessary as there are no embedded special
> characters or spaces.
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