Re: [CLEAR] alias find issue

2016-09-07 Thread Dale R. Worley
"Julien Rivoal" writes: > I have a question for an aliases utilization, I use since a long times this > alias : alias ff='find . -name "\!*" -print' > > And now I can't use it and I don't understand why ? I assume that the goal is to find all files whose names start with the "!" character. The c

Re: [CLEAR] alias find issue

2016-09-07 Thread Stephane Chazelas
2016-09-06 15:39:47 +0200, Julien Rivoal: [...] > I have a question for an aliases utilization, I use since a long times this > alias : alias ff='find . -name "\!*" -print' [...] You're confusing csh with sh. alias ff 'find . -name "\!*" -print' Is a csh dirty hark using history expansion to hav