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Re: Problems with "find" and job control.
- To: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
- Subject: Re: Problems with "find" and job control.
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna.vinschen@cityweb.de>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 01:01:39 +0100
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Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote:
> >$ find . -name sh.exe -print
>
> you are typing a wrong thing. You need to put quotes around sh.exe.
>
> find . -name "sh.exe" -print
>
> The command you are typing is going to give you syntex error on a UNIX
> machine too.
This help is incorrect! You only have to quote the name, if it contains
meta characters, e.g. `*.c'.
Corinna
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