Hello,
If you run "find . -name *.txt" in a directory containing foo.txt and
bar.txt then the shell expands *.txt before executing find, i.e. you
would be running "find . -name foo.txt bar.txt" which produces a syntax
error. Either quote ('*.txt') or escape (\*.txt) the argument.
Closing.
** Changed in: findutils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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"find" command throws nonsense error message
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