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(Ubuntu/Linux)"find" command gives different results based on quotation marks
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Mar 15, 20261284 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Problem
I was using and getting only one result "./prib09jack.pdf" with I get many more results that I was looking for such as and many more, but why did it matter that the quotation marks were around "prib"? Best.
Error Output
find -iname *prib*
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Fix for: (Ubuntu/Linux)"find" command gives different results based on quotation marks
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If there is a file (or files) matching in the current directory when the find command is run, the shell will expand the wildcard to match the file name(s) first before handing the arguments to find, and result in a different command being run than t…
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