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Reputation: 1423

Find command inconsistent output , wild card not working correctly

I am using find command to create a list of files that I want to use for distribution bundle. but find is not able to get the list of all files

Below is my directory structure

.
├── 1.cpp
├── test
│   └── 1.cpp
└── test1
├── 1.cpp
└── test11
    ├── 1.h
    └── 2.cpp

below is the command and its output ( note: it does not bring the ./test1/test11/2.cpp) 

$ find . -name *.cpp
./test/1.cpp
./1.cpp
./test1/1.cpp

however when i am using the specific name it is able to locate the file 

$ find . -name 2.cpp
./test1/test11/2.cpp

Upvotes: 0

Views: 49

Answers (2)

Vishnu T S
Vishnu T S

Reputation: 3914

Add double quote in your search string find . -name "*.cpp"

Upvotes: 1

Nahuel Fouilleul
Nahuel Fouilleul

Reputation: 19305

it's because *.cpp is expanded to 1.cpp because there is a match in current directory use quotes "*.cpp" or escape star \*.cpp to avoid expansion and pass star literaly as argument for find.

Upvotes: 1

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