find usage

[Kevin Cozens]

Kihara Muriithi wrote:
> Sorensen suggestion fixed it
> # find / -xdev -name *ldif
> /usr/share/doc/python-ldap-2.0.6/Demo/Lib/ldif

If you are going to use wildcards when searching for files you should enclose 
the pattern in double quotes to prevent the shell from expanding the wildcard 
and possibly passing a lot of things to the program other than what you intended.

ie.
# find / -xdev -name "*ldif"

I also tend to add -print at the end (perhaps its just habit more than 
something that is necessary).

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