From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin)
Subject: RE: globbing feature in 17.1 when not under bash issue (bug)
22 Feb 1997 09:11:51 -0800
Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Distribution: cygnus
Message-ID: <01BC20F1.2025DA10.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos>
Original-To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" <gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com>,
        "'David Ellis'"
	 <dg_ellis AT ccm DOT jf DOT intel DOT com>
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Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

David Ellis wrote:
> that quoting of arguments was overlooked. Here is the test case
> 
>   find . -name '*.doc'
> 
> Works great under bash but does a glob under cmd.exe and comes up
> with an effective comand line like:
>   find . -name barf.doc two.doc more.doc
> 

In the last case globbing is performed by cmd.exe. Try
 find . -name "*.doc"

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Sergey Okhapkin
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