On 02/08/14 09:20, Tixy wrote:
On Sat, 2014-08-02 at 08:56 +0100, Dom wrote: [...]find . -name *.pdf will expand out to find . -name test1.pdf test2.pdf and there you get your error. But find . -name "test1.pdf" will remain unchanged as the shell won't try and expand the quoted values.I guess you meant that last example to be: find . -name '*.pdf'
I did indeed. Well spotted :) -- Dom