On Fri, Dec 10, 1999 at 08:29:10PM -0500, Charles Galpin wrote:
| actually, the '.' will match any character. So it will also match
| dead_letters, dead-letters, deadaleters etc.
[...]
| On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Vidiot wrote:
| > >find / -name "dead.letters" -exec rm {} /;
Um, no. RTFM, my man. This is a _shell_ pattern, not a regexp.
. isn't special in shell patterns (it uses ? for match any char).
Imagine how bad things would be if . were a wildcard for the shell.
We talk about *.c etc all the time...
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