Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3644 mails)

[zentara <zentara@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2002 19:24:55 +0100
James Mohr <suse_mailing_list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Monday 25 March 2002 13:39, zentara wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 21:39:38 +0100
> >
> > Philipp Thomas <pthomas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Sun, 24 Mar 2002 09:17:24 -0500, you wrote:
> > > > Ok, that is just a simple use of find
> > > > find . -name "*.jpg" ;;
> > >
> > > Nope, that won't keep the shell from expanding the wildcard. Either use
> > > single quotes or a backslash to inhibit wildcard expansion:
> > >
> > >   find <directory_to_start_searching> -name \*.jpg
> > >   find <directory_to_start_searching> -name '*.jpg'
> >
> > Hmmm,   find . -name "*.jpg"  works for me with output
> > identical  to  \*.jpg   or  '*.jpg'  .   Wonder why?
> > I'm using bash from suse7.2.
>
> It's standard shell behaviour. Expansion of the wildcards is done by the 
> shell before it tries to execute the command. If you have a file in the 
> current directory ending in jpg then the shell finds it and expands it on the 
> command line. If there is no file that the shell can expand to the entire 
> expression is passed to find. You can  test this with the exact same command, 
> but first create a jpg file in the current directory (touch trash.jpg). Then 
> you will only find that one file (or any other file with the exact same name.)

Yeah, I understand shell behavior with *.
The original posts dealt with whether using "" quotes would work.
They do on my system, for example, the following give
identical output, whether I use  ""   ,    ''    ,   or  \

zentara@zentara:~/1 > ls
dobears.jpg  flag.jpg  frontpage.bmp  hula.gif  linus.jpg  linus1.jpg  
mscement.png  oldglory.ps  trash.jpg  tuxvolt_a.gif

zentara@zentara:~/1 > find  . -name "*.jpg"
./trash.jpg
./linus1.jpg
./flag.jpg
./linus.jpg
./dobears.jpg

zentara@zentara:~/1 > find  . -name '*.jpg'
./trash.jpg
./linus1.jpg
./flag.jpg
./linus.jpg
./dobears.jpg

zentara@zentara:~/1 > find  . -name \*.jpg
./trash.jpg
./linus1.jpg
./flag.jpg
./linus.jpg
./dobears.jpg
zentara@zentara:~/1 > 







-- 
$|=1;while(1){print pack("h*",'75861647f302d4560275f6272797f3');sleep(1);
for(1..16){for(8,32,8,7){print chr($_);}select(undef,undef,undef,.05);}}