Re: problem with 'find'

1999-08-30 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > If I issue the command "find / -name *.deb -print" in an xterm (fvm95 > wm) I get "find: paths must preced expression Usage: find [path...] > [expression]" > > If I try this from a vterm () it works fine. I am NOT

Re: problem with 'find'

1999-08-30 Thread Michael Procario
Put the *.deb in quotes as in find / -name "*.deb" -print You want find to see the *. Without the quotes the shell expands *.deb to a list of debs which may or may not be empty. Th equotes prevent shell expandsion. _

Re: problem with 'find'

1999-08-30 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > If I issue the command "find / -name *.deb -print" in an xterm (fvm95 You have to enclose *.deb in single quotes. The type of terminal you are on will have no meaning, but whether there are any .deb files in your current directory will. :}

problem with 'find'

1999-08-30 Thread Kenneth Scharf
If I issue the command "find / -name *.deb -print" in an xterm (fvm95 wm) I get "find: paths must preced expression Usage: find [path...] [expression]" If I try this from a vterm () it works fine. I am NOT logged in as root in either case. Hmmm now it isn't even working in a vterm. (something