globbing feature in 17.1 when not under bash issue (bug)

Sergey Okhapkin sos@prospect.com.ru
Sat Feb 22 07:48:00 GMT 1997


David Ellis wrote:
> that quoting of arguments was overlooked. Here is the test case
> 
>   find . -name '*.doc'
> 
> Works great under bash but does a glob under cmd.exe and comes up
> with an effective comand line like:
>   find . -name barf.doc two.doc more.doc
> 

In the last case globbing is performed by cmd.exe. Try
 find . -name "*.doc"

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Sergey Okhapkin
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