From: cgf@cygnus.com (Christopher G. Faylor) Subject: Re: B20.1 bug: find is acting funny 6 Jan 1999 16:11:34 GMT Message-ID: <7701vm$ehr$1@cronkite.cygnus.com> References: <179AA48D1741D211821700805FFE241873CA8D@HQMAIL02> <000601be3812$a35e0fd0$0c0aa8c0.cygnus.gnu-win32@harry.scoutsys.com> X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test63 (15 March 1998) In article <000601be3812$a35e0fd0$0c0aa8c0.cygnus.gnu-win32@harry.scoutsys.com>, Hugh Winkler 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 -- cgf@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/