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Subject: Re: tolower to _tolower   why?
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Date: 20 Feb 89 16:53:00 GMT
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Written  5:07 pm  Feb 18, 1989 by udel.UUCP!mmdf in cpe:comp.os.minix
>) why does find / -name termcap* -print not find /etc/termcap?  (It will
>find /usr/junk/termcap.sh, so apparently the * keeps it from finding just
>plain old termcap).

Because you were in /usr/junk when you tried it.  "termcap*" was expanded
(by the shell) to "termcap.sh".  Then it runs "find / -name termcap.sh -print".
Strangely, in any other directory it would work.  If you were in /etc it
would expand to "find / -name termcap -print".  If you were in / it would
expand to "find / -name termcap* -print".  The only guaranteed way to get
what you want is to quote the * as in "find / -name termcap\* -print".

			Paul Chamberlain
			Computer Product Engineering, Tandy Corp.
			{killer | texbell}!cpe!tif