Re: Use "find" to search for files without extensions ?

From: Stephane CHAZELAS (stephane_chazelas_at_yahoo.fr)
Date: 09/25/03 

Date: 25 Sep 2003 09:15:10 GMT

Andreas Kahari wrote:
[...]
>> tt30446@terrance[992]> find . \! -name '*\.*'
>> ./check
>> ./hello
>
> In a Bourne-derived shell, the escaping of the exclamation
> mark is unnecessary.
[....]

zsh is Bourne derived and needs the escaping of the exclamation
mark (unless you unset the banghist option [which I do] as in sh
or ksh emulation)

bash is Bourne derived and also performs history expansion (even
if a "!" alone is not special). 

-- 
Stéphane

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