At 03:10 PM 1/16/2001, Timothee Besset wrote:
>ok, maybe I really suck at unix stuff, but I think I have a weird and buggy behaviour 
>with find:
>
>on a linux box (standard and recent slackware installation) I'm using find:
>
>tim@lunatic:/usr/local/root_home/tim$ find --version
>GNU find version 4.1
>
>find GtkRadiant -iname *.cpp -print
>gets me all the .cpp files in my directories..
>
>if I type that in cygwin (I upgraded to the latest network install today to make sure)
>I get .. only 1 file out of the 104 it should find:
>
>administrator@DOWTEST-SGL /cygdrive/e/Loki
>$ find GtkRadiant -iname *.cpp -print
>GtkRadiant/radiant/preferences.cpp
>
>administrator@DOWTEST-SGL /cygdrive/e/Loki
>$ find -version
>GNU find version 4.1
>
>I don't see anything special about this file compared to all the others .. 
>permissions are the same etc.
>
>unless I really suck that much with shell scripts .. I think this is a bug
>
>TTimo



Hm, I think its not.  Put a backslash before the * and see if you get more
what you expect.



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