Problems to execute the FIND command

hpinto · 03-28-2006, 05:40 PM

Hi All,

I'm trying to create a file with the path and names of all CPP files that I have. For that I'm using the following simple command:

Quote:

find . -name *.cpp

But I'm getting the following message:

Quote:

find: bad option exabrt.cpp
find: path-list predicate-list

Where exabrt.cpp is one of the files that I have.

It's important to day that the same command works perfectly wit many other extensions (*.h or *.for or *.c). I'm running this command under Solaris.

Does anyone have any ideas what is going on?

Thanks in advance,
Herminio

gilead · 03-28-2006, 05:58 PM

Have you tried it with the name argument wrapped in quotes:

Code:

find . -name '*.cpp'

I think the shell is expanding your *.cpp to the list of names of the cpp files in your current directory and handing that list to find. Wrapping it in quotes prevents that.

hpinto · 03-28-2006, 06:56 PM

It works!

Thanks a lot.

Herminio