Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (174 mails)

[Hubert Mantel <mantel@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 24, Vladimir Kukuruzovic wrote:

> This is very odd:
> (suse 6.2 - updated from 6.0)
>
> kuki@c00l:~ > pwd
> /home/office/kuki
> kuki@c00l:~ > find /home/office/kuki/ -name linux-* -print
> /home/office/kuki/linux-animation.html
> kuki@c00l:~ > find /home/office/kuki/dl/ -name linux-* -print
> kuki@c00l:~ > cd dl
> kuki@c00l:~/dl > find /home/office/kuki/dl/ -name linux-* -print
> /home/office/kuki/dl/linux-2.3.28.tar.bz2
> kuki@c00l:~/dl > cd ..
> kuki@c00l:~ > find . -name linux-* -print
> ./linux-animation.html
> kuki@c00l:~ > cd dl
> kuki@c00l:~/dl > find . -name linux-* -print
> ./linux-2.3.28.tar.bz2
> kuki@c00l:~/dl > 
>
>
> if I try find /home -name linux-* -print the program finds it. It also
> succedes if I use path /home/office

The wildcard expansion is done by the shell, so you are searching for
another filename. Use quotes:

find . -name "linux-*" -print

> On suse 6.0 this works ok

With the very same files in the very same directories?

BTW: wrong mailinglist.

> Regards, 
>       Vladimir
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