[lug] Puzzle with find

[David L. Anselmi]

Hugh Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 16:37 -0400, Gordon Golding wrote:
[...]
>>[root at rl6-182-196-dhcp /]# cd -
>>/root
>>[root at rl6-182-196-dhcp ~]# /usr/bin/find / -name *install*
>>/usr/bin/find: paths must precede expression
>>Usage: /usr/bin/find [path...] [expression]
> 
> I'd bet that you have an install.log file in /root so the shell glob is
> doing you in.  As noted before quoting the expression should fix it.

Actually, there must be more than one file that matches *install* because:

/usr/bin/find / -name install.log

(after glob expansion) is perfectly valid.

Dave