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
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