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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:46:41 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>,
        FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: find still broken - is this only happening to me?
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On Thu, Sep 25, 1997 at 06:15:30PM +0200, Mark Murray wrote:
> Nate Williams wrote:
>>> I reported this a couple of weeks ago.  Has nobody else experienced it?
>>>
>>> $ find /sys -follow -name "*.[csh]" | xargs grep ENFILE|less
>>> ): no beginning '('
>>
>> Works for me (w/out less, since I don't have it installed).  No errors.
>
> This chap (Greg?) most likely has a funny file somewhere. Make the command
> line:
> $ find /sys -follow -name '*.[csh]' | xargs grep ENFILE|less
>
> (singe quotes, not double), and it should work. The *.[csh] is being
> allowed to glob by the "".

Yes, that was my first assumption.  Look at the name of the directory:
it's the source tree.  And GNU find works fine.  I did this on
numerous directories.

OK, if nobody else has seen it, I'll follow it up and see what the
problem really is.  Watch this space.

Greg