On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 12:43, Terry Collins wrote: > Okay, this has bothered me for ages and I'm finally asking if anyone can > explain why does find sometimes crap itself over certain paths. eg > > find /opt/spool/smtpd/spam -name smtpd00* > find: paths must preceed expressions
Stupid question, but: Is your shell trying to expand the wildcard? Does it work if you quote the smtpdoo* ? -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
