On 11/02/07, Sean Gibbins <sean@???> wrote:
> root@bender:~# find /etc -name pass*d
> /etc/pam.d/passwd
> /etc/passwd
Good tip. I'd like to refine it slightly.
It is always a good idea to wrap arguments to -name in quotes to stop
them being expanded by the shell. I generally use single quotes, as
the shell will never expand anything within them.
# find /etc -name 'pass*d'
Without the quotes the results are unpredictable. Let's imagine that
there's a file called "password" in the current working directory.
find /etc -name pass*d
would be expanded by the shell to
find /etc -name password
with entirely different (and surprising) results.
G
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