Difference In Command

[rajesh.bahl]

Hi Guys!

Need your views on this :-

If I run the command:

find / -name  foo* -print

on my system, I get a big listing of 121 files.

Again if I run :

find / -name foo\* -print

I get the same listing of 121 files.


What exactly is the difference between these two commands ? Under what scnerio each one is used ?
If possible quote some examples in your explanations !

regards
rajesh.bahl

[Ricky]

Both commands are same ie. will give same output, both will list files whose name starts with "foo"

The difference is that in foo\* is acting as escape character as we do in programming, some shell need this to specifically specify and some do not hence both are working.

[dragoncity99]

FYI

[root@rhel4 /]# find /root -name foo*
/root/foo2
/root/foo1
/root/foo*
[root@rhel4 /]#
[root@rhel4 /]#
[root@rhel4 /]# find /root -name foo\*
/root/foo2
/root/foo1
/root/foo*
[root@rhel4 /]#
[root@rhel4 /]#
[root@rhel4 /]# find /root -name "foo\*"
/root/foo*
[root@rhel4 /]#

[Ricky]

That is clear