No, bash is the same way...

You have to really do a find <dir> \*.jar

I was sorta wrong in what I was saying...find in this case is doing the expansion (in the case where one escapes the asterisk)...

Dominique Devienne wrote:
$ 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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