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I don't understand escaping properly. Why, on some machines (all varying distros of Ubuntu) does find -name *.xml return nothing and I have to use f

by porker 7y ago

I don't understand escaping properly. Why, on some machines (all varying distros of Ubuntu) does find -name *.xml return nothing and I have to use find -name '*.xml' whilst on other machines the first command returns results? The shell is always bash, it's a stock install - so why the variation? I get that it should always be quoted, but not why it sometimes works when unquoted and other times doesn't.

scolby33 7y ago
Perhaps `shopt -s nullglob` has been set? “If set, Bash allows filename patterns which match no files to expand to a null string, rather than themselves.” [1] [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt-Builtin.html https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/The-Shopt...
bmn__ 7y ago
> so why the variation? Difference between dash and bash? Shell options? `man shopt` and grep for glob