Re: what's wrong with 'find . -name *.ebuild'?

[Elias Pipping]

Sorry, just as I clicked 'send' it struck me.
of course I need to enclose *.ebuild in quotes.

  find . -name '*.ebuild'

works as expected. Please disregard my previos mail.


Kind regards,

Elias


On May 19, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Elias Pipping wrote:

> Hi,
>
> using findutils from gentoo-alt (find --version see below),
> I encountered this strange behavior:
>
> I was looking for files that had the extension '.ebuild'. So I tried:
>
>   $ find . -name *.ebuild
>
> However, only a single result[1] showed up, which was from
> the current dir, whereas e.g.
>
>   $ find . -name autoconf*.ebuild
>
> brought up six results[2] from subdirs (as expected) and eventually
>
>   $ find . -regex .+\.ebuild
>
> brought up all the results[3] I wanted.
>
> So the question is, what's wrong with the first command?
> Wasn't I using the correct syntax or is something broken?
>
> = = = = = =
>
> [1] http://paste.lisp.org/display/41478
> [2] http://paste.lisp.org/display/41478#1
> [3] http://paste.lisp.org/display/41478#2
>
> $ find --version
> GNU find version 4.3.4
> Built using GNU gnulib version 2007-04-17
> Features enabled: D_TYPE O_NOFOLLOW(enabled) LEAF_OPTIMISATION FTS 
> () CBO(level=0)
>
> = = = = = =
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Elias Pipping