On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:43:25 +1100, Terry Collins wrote: > find /opt/spool/smtpd/spam -name smtpd00* > find: paths must preceed expressions
There are at least two files matching 'smtpd00*' in your current directory and your shell is expanding the wildcard. *Always* escape or quote wildcards when passing them as arguments to a program. The shell will only pass them unchanged if it can't find a match. Try: find /opt/spool/smtpd/spam -name smtpd00\* Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug