Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 15:42:58 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> To: hmmm@alaska.net (hmmm) Cc: brandon@glacier.cold.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: find Message-ID: <199610131342.PAA02498@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961013042248.225B-100000@hmmm> from hmmm at "13. Oct. 96 4:26:25"
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> On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Brandon Gillespie wrote:
>
> > > cd usr/local/man/man1
> > > find / -name ispell*
> >
> > > cd usr/local/man
> > > find / -name ispell*
> >
> > I suspect wildcard expansion is getting in your way. You should really put
> > quotes around ispell*, ala:
> >
> > find / -name "ispell*"
> >
> no, it the same problem results with ot w/o parameter expansion. i just
> used that as an example because it exagerates the effect.
That's funny -- and hard to believe. I get (running tcsh):
I think you meant: v
15:22 ghost:p4: /root 0#% cd /usr/local/man/man1
* new dir: /usr/local/man/man1
15:22 ghost:p4: /usr/local/man/man1 0#% find / -name "ispell*"
/cdrom/ports/distfiles/ispell-3.1.20.tar.gz
/cdrom/ports/misc/ispell
/cdrom/usr/src/usr.bin/file/Magdir/ispell
/usr/local/bin/ispell
/usr/local/man/man1/ispell.1
/usr/local/man/man4/ispell.4
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ispell.el
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ispell.elc
/usr/local/share/emacs/19.29/lisp/ispell.el
/usr/local/share/emacs/19.29/lisp/ispell4.el
/usr/local/share/emacs/19.29/lisp/ispell.elc
/usr/local/share/emacs/19.29/lisp/ispell4.elc
/usr/src/usr.bin/file/Magdir/ispell
/var/db/pkg/ispell-3.1.20
Time report: 4.681u 26.383s 2:59.55 17.2%
15:25 ghost:p4: /usr/local/man/man1 0#% cd /usr/local/man
* new dir: /usr/local/man
15:25 ghost:p4: /usr/local/man 0#% find / -name "ispell*"
/cdrom/ports/distfiles/ispell-3.1.20.tar.gz
/cdrom/ports/misc/ispell
/cdrom/usr/src/usr.bin/file/Magdir/ispell
/usr/local/bin/ispell
/usr/local/man/man1/ispell.1
/usr/local/man/man4/ispell.4
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ispell.el
/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ispell.elc
/usr/local/share/emacs/19.29/lisp/ispell.el
/usr/local/share/emacs/19.29/lisp/ispell4.el
/usr/local/share/emacs/19.29/lisp/ispell.elc
/usr/local/share/emacs/19.29/lisp/ispell4.elc
/usr/src/usr.bin/file/Magdir/ispell
/var/db/pkg/ispell-3.1.20
Time report: 5.061u 26.120s 3:00.72 17.2%
15:28 ghost:p4: /usr/local/man 0#% find / -name ispell*
find: No match.
15:29 ghost:p4: /usr/local/man 1#% ls ispell*
ls: No match.
15:30 ghost:p4: /usr/local/man 1#% cd man1
* new dir: /usr/local/man/man1
15:30 ghost:p4: /usr/local/man/man1 0#% ls ispell*
ispell.1
15:30 ghost:p4: /usr/local/man/man1 0#% ls "ispell*"
ls: ispell*: No such file or directory
15:31 ghost:p4: /usr/local/man/man1 0#%
> isn't it like this for you too? because this odd behaviour is on all my
No.
> machines ...
If you are you using {ba}sh, the shell executes ispell* like "ispell*"
when it cannot expand it while csh complains about `No match'.
(This can be controlled by some variable, I think.)
Robert
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