Subject: Re: CONTINUING Elementary Problems with Find
From: [email-masked] (上田 健之)

22 Oct 1997 20:04:10 -0700
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To: GBradfor <[email-masked]>
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Hi, 

>      Taking my initial command line:
>         find . -name *.c -print
> 
>      gives the following error:
>         find:  Paths must precede expression
>         Usage:  find [path...] [expression]

The shell have expanded "*.c" into several filenames before execute
find.
May be, do you want to do as bellow?

	find . -print | grep '\.c'
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