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

23 Oct 1997 06:46:58 -0700
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>Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 09:58:16 +0900
>From: "=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCPmVFRCEhN3JHNxsoSg==?=" 
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>To: GBradfor <[email-masked]>
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>Subject: Re: CONTINUING Elementary Problems with Find
>
>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'
>-

NO! To stop shell expansion use quoting:

        find . -name '*.c' -print
                   or
        find . -name "*.c" -print

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