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bug #16269: The manual gives an incorrect example

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Wed 05 Apr 2006 07:35:24 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  documentation Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  None
Status:  Fixed Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  jay Originator Name: 
Originator Email:  -email is unavailable- Open/Closed:  Closed
Release:  None Fixed Release:  4.3.1
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Mon 07 Aug 2006 09:44:58 AM UTC, comment #3: 

4,3,1 has now been released, fixing this problem.

James Youngman <jay>
Group administrator
Thu 15 Jun 2006 08:20:08 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Thanks.  I've now fixed this in the 4.3.x CVS code.



This problem is fixed in the CVS code for findutils.
To resolve your problem, you could either wait for the
next official release of findutils, or check out a copy
of the code from the CVS repository for findutils.

James Youngman <jay>
Group administrator
Wed 05 Apr 2006 09:41:48 AM UTC, comment #1: 

By 'manual' I mean the man page you get when you type

man find.

Laura (lac@strakt.com)

Anonymous
Wed 05 Apr 2006 07:35:24 AM UTC, original submission:  

The manuals states:
NON-BUGS
       $ find . -name *.c -print
       find: paths must precede expression
       Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]

       This happens because *.c has been expanded by the  shell  resulting  in
       find actually receiving a command line like this:

       find . -name bigram.c code.c frcode.c locate.c -print

       That  command  is of course not going to work.  Instead of doing things
       this way, you should enclose the pattern in quotes:
       $ find . -name ´*.c´ -print

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Those are the wrong sort of quotes.  You want
find . -name '*.c' -print

instead.

Anonymous

 

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Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
2006-08-07 jay Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    Fixed ReleaseNone 4.3.1
2006-06-15 jay Assigned toNone jay
2006-06-15 jay StatusNone Fixed

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