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Summary: The manual gives an incorrect example
Project: findutils
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Wednesday 04/05/06 at 07:35 UTC
Category: documentation
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
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Open/Closed: Open
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Details:
The manuals states:
NON-BUGS
$ find . -name *.c -print
find: paths must precede expression
Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]
This happens because *.c has been expanded by the shell resulting
in
find actually receiving a command line like this:
find . -name bigram.c code.c frcode.c locate.c -print
That command is of course not going to work. Instead of doing
things
this way, you should enclose the pattern in quotes:
$ find . -name ´*.c´ -print
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Those are the wrong sort of quotes. You want
find . -name '*.c' -print
instead.
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