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Re: CONTINUING Elementary Problems with Find
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- Subject: Re: CONTINUING Elementary Problems with Find
- From: mh at mike dot franken dot de (Michael Hirmke)
- Date: 23 Oct 1997 22:16:00 +0200
- Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Franken e.V. (Nuernberg)
Hi,
[...]
> find . -name *.c -print
find . -name "*.c"
>
> gives the following error:
> find: Paths must precede expression
> Usage: find [path...] [expression]
If you don't include a "*" into "", it will be expanded by the shell,
which will confuse find.
Btw. -print is obsolete with the GNU versions of find.
[...]
> Thanks again for your patience and your help.
>
> /s/
> Pat Bradford
Bye.
Michael.
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