3 ms·

Wildcards are still expanded inside double quotes.. Yiu have to use single quotes.

• solarexplorer 7y ago
  ...or a backslash.
  • beamatronic 7y ago
    I use the backslash. I also specify -type f explicitly when I’m looking for files. find . -type f -name \*.txt Now the next article will talk about problems when there’s a space in the file names and you just piped the output into xargs :)
• chousuke 7y ago
  That's not true. Variable expansion happens in double quotes, but globs stay untouched.
• waynecochran 7y ago
  Yes but double quotes will work fine in this case -- globs won't be expanded...