Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: From: Heribert Dahms To: "'gerrit.haase@t-online.de'" Cc: "'Timothee Besset'" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: RE: possible bug with find Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 22:18:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain WHAT?!: e.g. HP-UX 10.20 happens to have $ ll /usr/*h lr-xr-xr-t 1 root sys 14 Jul 13 1998 /usr/keysh -> /usr/lib /keysh thus $ (cd /usr;find include -name *h) finds nothing, since find is really invoked as $ (cd /usr;find include -name keysh) So unprotected * is passed only literally if the shell FAILS to expand the wildcard in the current dir! It needs to be quoted to work: $ (cd /usr;find include -name '*h'|head -3) include/sys/cmn_err.h include/sys/sad.h include/sys/stream.h Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de) > -----Original Message----- > From: Gerrit Peter Haase [SMTP:gerrit@familiehaase.de] > Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 22:56 > To: Heribert Dahms > Cc: 'Timothee Besset'; cygwin@cygwin.com > Subject: Re: possible bug with find > > Heribert Dahms schrieb: > > > > Hi Timo, > > > > no bug, user error: On every *ix you normally need quotation to prevent > the > > shell from file globbing (wildcard expansion) before involing programs, > like > > > > find GtkRadiant -iname '*.cpp' -print > > WHAT??? > > $ find include -iname *.h -print > > include/ansidecl.h > include/bfd.h [Heribert] [snip] -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple