From: corinna DOT vinschen AT cityweb DOT de (Corinna Vinschen)
Subject: Re: B20.1 bug: find is acting funny
5 Jan 1999 05:27:30 -0800
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To: hughw AT scoutsys DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Hugh Winkler wrote:
> 
> In b20.1 (bash 2.02.1(2), find 4.1) if I do
>     find ./ -name *.java
> 
> and there are some .java files in the current directory, find emits
> 
>         find: paths must precede expression
>         Usage: find [path...] [expression]
> 
> but if there are no .java files in the current directory, find behaves as
> expected.

If you use wildcards, which should be expanded by find, _not_ by the shell,
but by find, you should quote them:

	find . -name '*.java' -print

> find was working properly in 20.0 I'm pretty sure.

I bet, only with quoted wildcards, too.

Regards,
Corinna

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