Running a command on all file occurences in a directory tree

[Fraser Campbell]

On Friday 08 October 2004 20:25, William O'Higgins wrote:

> Why would you escape the asterisk in the find command, by the way?

Because otherwise the shell might gobble it up before find sees it.  That does 
happen in zsh:

  shieldaig% find . -type f -name *.jpg | while read file; do
    echo $file
  done
  zsh: no matches found: *.jpg

Bash doesn't expand the * not sure why that is but careful perusal of bash and 
zsh man pages would likely explain it.  I escape out of habit, since that way 
it works in both of the shells I commonly use (zsh and bash).

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