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Re: Bug in Findutils 4.1


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Bug in Findutils 4.1
Date: 03 Feb 2001 20:56:35 +0100
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address@hidden (Kevin Clevenger) writes:

|> Hey,
|> 
|> 
|> find /[A-z][!proc][!tmp]* -newer /tmp/timestamp -xtype f
|> 
|> This string totally omits the /opt directory.

Which has nothing to do with find, and is perfectly ok.  You are
explicitly requesting that the second character of the filename expansion
must not be `p' (among others), which /opt does not qualify.  Look up
filename expansion in the shell manual.

Andreas.

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