[ale] weird "find" behavior
Jim Popovitch
yahoo at jimpop.com
Sun Dec 2 01:31:21 EST 2007
On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 01:27 -0500, Brian Pitts wrote:
> > Right, but why does *.c work BUT not *.h, both without shell expansion
> > (which is what my WTF was all about).
> >
> > -Jim P.
>
> *.c works because there are no files ending in .c for the shell to
> expand that expression to. *.h fails because there are. Like Greg said
>
> "If the current directory has no *.c files, then your first command
> works by chance.
>
> If it has some *.h files, then it fails due to standard shell
> expression expansion."
>
> In other words,
>
> ls | grep "\.c"
>
> returns nothing, whereas
>
> ls | grep "\.h"
>
> shows something.
>
> You can verify that shell expansion is taking place using strace.
Doh! I saw "shell expansion" and thought "quoted text" (doing 3 things
at the same time right now...)
Thanks Brian and Greg.
-Jim P.
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