$ rm *.txt # be carefull to run this in some temp dir
$ mkdir newdir
$ touch newdir/something.txt newdir/anotherthing.txt
newdir/yetanother.txt
$ find ./ -name *.txt
./newdir/something.txt
./newdir/anotherthing.txt
./newdir/yetanother.txt
It works as expected because the shell does not expand the asterisk.
This is not true for me, at least on Solaris with tcsh (and I suspect
traditional shells behave the same). The shell always expands the
asterisk, and reports an error (find: no match) when the asterisk
doesn't match any file in the current dir. The same with ls, etc...
--DD
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