On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Samantha Jo Moore wrote:
> The dot "." is a very special character which is used to separate filename
> segments and cannot be associated with a "*". Thus to find all files with
> metacharacters in their names we need to issue two commands:
>
> find . -name '*\**' -print
> find . -name '.*\**' -print
Not quite. The only place where a dot is special is at the beginning of a
filename (Unix has no such concept as filename segments) where it means
"this file is hidden". A "find . -name '*\**' -print" will find all files
containing an asterisk except the ones with a dot at the beginning of the
name:
nils@wombat:~/test> touch '*' '*.*' '.*'
nils@wombat:~/test> find . -name '*\**' -print
./*
./*.*
Nils
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