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From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] More on proper 'find' usage
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 01:05:20
Message-Id: 20050318010518.GB2136288@lion.gg3.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] More on proper 'find' usage by Ciaran McCreesh
1 maillog: 18/03/2005-00:30:39(+0000): Ciaran McCreesh types
2 > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:36:09 -0800 Nick Winlund <nwinlu@×××××××.net>
3 > wrote:
4 > | More specifically, when 'find'ing files I've found quoting wildcards
5 > | usually works, like:
6 > |
7 > | from current dir:
8 > |
9 > | find . -name "*file*" -print > foo
10 >
11 > Single quotes.
12 >
13 > find . -name '*foo*'
14
15 Does it make a difference?
16
17 chutz@lion ~/tmp $ ls *.c
18 test.c
19 chutz@lion ~/tmp $ echo "*.c"
20 *.c
21
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Re: [gentoo-dev] More on proper 'find' usage Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>