Re: newbie question: simulating wildcards with piping

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 20:29:11 -0500

In article <1107046934.720467.135820@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
 drcode@gmail.com wrote:

> > What didn't work?
>
> Well, I'm running the bash command shell and my command is a compiled
> unix command ("sid2wav" in this case). Typing:
>
> sid2wav *.sid
>
> or
>
> sid2wav *
>
> does not work for me, but
>
> find . -name *.sid -exec sid2wav {} \;

That shouldn't work if there are any .sid files in the current
directory. Find searches recursively, wildcards only expand to files in
the directory specified in the wildcard path (the current directory by
default). 

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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