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[Taavi Burns]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:23:31PM -0800, Mel Seder wrote:
> 
> [root-lwfWIikfpTg at public.gmane.org mel]# find / -iname fstab
> /etc/fstab
>  
> [root-lwfWIikfpTg at public.gmane.org mel]# find / -iname fstab*
> find: paths must precede expression
> Usage: find [path...] [expression]
> [root-lwfWIikfpTg at public.gmane.org mel]#
> 
> I was horsing around with the find command and the "find / -name
> fstab*" seemed to blow up but the fist find worked fine.  Any idea what
> went wrong?

The shell is trying to interpret * as a standard wildcard.  You should
escape it like fstab\* or "fstab*".  :)

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