RE: QSHELL question for find command

At last...something I can blame for my ever increasing girth...it's not
me, it's the shell!

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: QSHELL question for find command
> From: "Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, February 10, 2005 8:33 am
> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks, Scott!
> 
> Even though I've run into this several times, I forget it and need to be
> reminded.  The shell expands everything.  The shell expands everything.
> The shell expands everything (unless it's in quotes).
> 
> Joe
> 
> > From: Scott Klement
> > 
> > For example, DON'T do the following:
> > 
> >       find /mydir -name *.txt
> > 
> > because QShell will expand *.txt into a list of files, and what the
> FIND
> > utility will actually see will be the following:
> > 
> >       find /mydir -name file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt
> > 
> > That's a problem, because find will think that "file2.txt" is another
> > switch that you're wanting to pass to it, and it doesn't know how to
> deal
> > with a swtich called "file2.txt" so it will return an error.
> > 
> > On the other hand, DO do it this way:
> > 
> >      find /mydir -name '*.txt'
> > 
> > The single quotes tell QShell not to do any special processing for the
> > characters in the quotes.  That way, the FIND utilty will actually
> receive
> > the characters '*.txt' as the argument to the -name switch, and will
> know
> > how to deal with it.
> 
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