Comment 3 for bug 1786625
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| Andreas Metzler (k-launchpad-downhill-at-eu-org) wrote | #3 |
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Hello,
If you run "find . -name *.txt" in a directory containing foo.txt and bar.txt then the shell expands *.txt before executing find, i.e. you would be running "find . -name foo.txt bar.txt" which produces a syntax error. Either quote ('*.txt') or escape (\*.txt) the argument.
Closing.