Re: Metacharacters with the '-name' option in the find command

Thanks Andreas for explaining. For what it's worth, there's also a very similar explanation in the "NON-BUGS" section of the find manual page. James.

Re: Metacharacters with the '-name' option in the find command

Thank you very much. Fred.

Metacharacters with the '-name' option in the find command

Hello, I do not understand metacharacters with '-name' option in the find command. Example: $ls file* file file.html $find . -name file* find: paths must precede expression: file.html Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-Olevel] [-D help|tree|search|stat|rates|opt|exec] [path...] [expression] Why it