From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject: Re: B20.1 bug: find is acting funny
6 Jan 1999 16:11:34 GMT
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In article <000601be3812$a35e0fd0$0c0aa8c0 DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT harry DOT scoutsys DOT com>,
Hugh Winkler <hughw AT scoutsys DOT com> wrote:
>Thanks fellows,
>
>You're both correct, it's my usage that's incorrect. I found the same
>behavior on a bash running on a BSD system.
>
>I'm still a little mystified that I don't need the escape or the quotes if
>there are no matching files in the directory; I wonder what argv[3] is in
>that case. I guess it must be "*.java". Interesting.

Yup.  Same thing on UNIX.

Go figure...

-chris
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