[lug] Finding a File

[Michael Deck]

At 09:43 AM 5/6/2004, rm at fabula.de wrote:
<snip>
>  BTW, you _can_ actually use 'find' with wildcards:
>
>   $ find /usr/local/bin -name 'minic*'
>
>  Should work.

I have a question about this. I've gotten different results when I do this:

   $ find /usr/local/bin -name 'minic*'

versus when I do this:

   $ cd /usr/local/bin
   $ find . -name 'minic*'

Very often, the first form doesn't find any files, the second form finds 
lots. This on Mdk9.0 for sure, I think I've seen it on Fedora FC1 as well, 
but I don't remember now.

Any thoughts?

-Mike



Michael Deck
Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.