On Thu Dec 11, 2003 at 12:55:46 +1100, John Clarke wrote: >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:
And some shells (like my zsh setup) don't even do that. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
