Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 19:35:49 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> To: hmmm@alaska.net (hmmm) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: find Message-ID: <199610131735.TAA06103@gluon.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.961013161932.617A-100000@hmmm> from hmmm at "13. Oct. 96 16:22:50"
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>
> ok - as usual, i'm part right, part wrong.
>
> here's the scoop after testing further suggestions ...
>
> oh - and his is with SH, i want to get good with it before
> i move on to better shells ....
>
> the quotes help, but it STILL works different
> in different directories ???
I don't see this.
`find / -name "ispell*"' gives the same results (as I see from your output
below) in either directory.
The fact that `find / -name ispell*' works differently can be explained
by the fact that sh expands `ispell*' to `ispell.1.gz' when you are in
/usr/local/man/man1, but cannot be expanded, because there is nothing to
match, when you are in the one above.
Thus, sh passes `ispell*' unmodified to find *as if* it was quoted.
(Other shells may give you an error.)
As opposed to DOS, in Unix the shell expands wildcards unless they are
quoted *before* passing them as arguments to the program.
I hope this explains the behaviour you see to you.
Robert
> ..........................................................
>
> cd /usr/local/man/man1
>
> find / -name ispell
> /usr/local/bin/ispell
>
> find / -name ispell*
> /usr/local/man/man1/ispell.1.gz
> /usr/local/man/cat1/ispell.1.gz
>
> find / -name "ispell*"
> /dos/bsd/packages/all/ispell-3.1.2
> /usr/local/bin/ispell
> /usr/local/man/man1/ispell.1.gz
> /usr/local/man/cat1/ispell.1.gz
> /usr/local/man/man4/ispell.4.gz
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ispell.el
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ispell.elc
> /usr/packages/All/ispell-3.1.20.tgz
> /var/db/pkg/ispell-3.1.20
>
> cd ..
>
> find / -name ispell
> /usr/local/bin/ispell
>
> find / -name ispell*
> /dos/bsd/packages/all/ispell-3.1.2
> /usr/local/bin/ispell
> /usr/local/man/man1/ispell.1.gz
> /usr/local/man/cat1/ispell.1.gz
> /usr/local/man/man4/ispell.4.gz
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ispell.el
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ispell.elc
> /usr/packages/All/ispell-3.1.20.tgz
> /var/db/pkg/ispell-3.1.20
>
> find / -name "ispell*"
> /dos/bsd/packages/all/ispell-3.1.2
> /usr/local/bin/ispell
> /usr/local/man/man1/ispell.1.gz
> /usr/local/man/cat1/ispell.1.gz
> /usr/local/man/man4/ispell.4.gz
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ispell.el
> /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ispell.elc
> /usr/packages/All/ispell-3.1.20.tgz
> /var/db/pkg/ispell-3.1.20
--
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