> pattern before. I never knew it expanded the wild card before it
> searched. Gotta be the old DOS mentality.
Actually, no. It is the *shell* that expands the wildcard on a
unix-system. If you want to pass a wildcard to a program, you have to
explicitly make it clear to the shell *not* to expan
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
> This is interesting:
>
> panther# pwd
> /usr/src/kde/kdelibs
> panther# find /usr -iname kfdial*
> /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.cpp
> /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.moc
> /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.h
> /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.
Thanks for that little tid-bit. I've used the find command for about two
years and never discovered this before except when the wild card is in
front it caused a problem and I'd use quotes. I don't think I've ever
searched for a file from a directory that contained one matching the
pattern befor
On Thu, 8 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
> panther# cd ../kdm*
> panther# pwd
> /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4
> panther# find /usr -iname kfdial*
> /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kgreeter/kfdialog.cpp
> /usr/src/kde/kdm-0.4.4/kfdialog.cpp
try putting quotes around kfdial*.
e.g.
find /usr -iname "kfdial*"
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