RE: QSHELL question for find command

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.