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' -- Tixy