Question on find inconsistency - SOLVED

[Glenn R Williams]

Thanks Donn,

I found something to answer (partially) my own question: When there is only 1 
file with that pattern in the directory, not quoting the argument works. 
However, when 2 or more files are present with the same pattern, the same error 
message appears.

Bottom line: the shell (bash in my case) is globbing the argument before it is 
present to find. In effect, if your have two files, say file1.txt and file2.txt, 
and your write:

find . -name *.txt

then the shell present this to find:

find . -name file1.txt file2.txt

This is why the quotes are needed.
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Glenn R Williams
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On Tuesday 18 November 2008 09:52:45 Donn wrote:
> > find / -name *.mp4
>
> find is very confusing. I think you should use quotes tho:
> find / -name "*.mp4" might help.
>
> \d