This depends a lot on the terminal, and my advise is to always suround the glob with quotes: find . -iname "*file*" zsh will cry that nothing matches the

This depends a lot on the terminal, and my advise is to always suround the glob with quotes: find . -iname "*file*" zsh will cry that nothing matches the glob if you don't. bash will expand it if something matches, or pass it as-is to the client if something does - which will give you unexpected results.