Re: problem with 'find'

[Michael Procario <procario@cmu.edu>]

Put the *.deb in quotes as in 

find / -name "*.deb" -print

You want find to see the *. Without the quotes the shell expands *.deb to a 
list of debs which may or may not be empty. Th equotes prevent shell 
expandsion.

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Michael Procario                                       EMAIL: procario@cmu.edu
Department of Physics                                  
Carnegie Mellon University      

              "Another casualty of applied metaphysics"
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