[bug #12966] (touch .p.; find . -name '*.') problem

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                 Summary: (touch .p.; find . -name '*.') problem
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Wed 05/04/2005 at 13:04
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: Yakov Lerner
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 4.2.20
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

I observed that 
           find -name '*.' 
does not report names beginning with '.' and ending with '.'.

For example:
     touch .p.; find -name '*.'
does not report '.p.'
     
Is this intentional, or a bug ?

Yakov Lerner



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