On Sat, 2014-08-02 at 08:56 +0100, Dom wrote:
[...]
> 
>    find . -name *.pdf
> 
> will expand out to
> 
>    find . -name test1.pdf test2.pdf
> 
> and there you get your error. But
> 
>    find . -name "test1.pdf"
> 
> will remain unchanged as the shell won't try and expand the quoted values.

I guess you meant that last example to be:

    find . -name '*.pdf'

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Tixy


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