From: Willie Wong <wwong@math.princeton.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 06:29:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110227112919.GA29506@math.princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19030C9F-4C52-44C2-9E32-F01285EBC55B@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 06:52:36AM +0000, Stroller wrote:
> AIUI using `find /my/folder -name foo*.txt` (i.e. unquoted) the shell will pass the * to find if it can't expand it itself.
Not necessarily true.
On bash if you set the 'nullglob' option, if the shell can't find the
file the word will be removed. If you set the 'failglob' character,
the command will quit with an error if the shell can't complete the
path expansion.
I expect there to be similar options in other shells.
W
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Willie W. Wong wwong@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-26 2:26 [gentoo-user] Search filesystem with a wildcard Grant
2011-02-26 3:19 ` Amankwah
2011-02-26 4:33 ` Mike Gilbert
2011-02-26 10:24 ` Roman Zilka
2011-02-26 17:33 ` Grant
2011-02-26 18:26 ` luis jure
2011-02-26 21:45 ` Roman Zilka
2011-02-27 3:46 ` Stroller
[not found] ` <73cb39da-826b-4754-91f4-40e9656fe961@ZABRYSVISEXHUB2.af.didata.local>
2011-02-27 6:52 ` Stroller
2011-02-27 11:29 ` Willie Wong [this message]
2011-02-27 19:32 ` Grant
2011-02-26 3:23 ` Mike Gilbert
2011-02-26 17:16 ` Grant
2011-03-01 0:58 ` Grant
2011-03-01 2:11 ` Alex Schuster
2011-03-01 17:56 ` Grant
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