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shmerl on Feb 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: A common mistake involving wildcards and the find ...

TL;DR: globbing kicks in before other things unless you turn it off like with single quotes:

https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/globbingref.html

Don't forget about globbing when making Bash scripts.

sengstrom on Feb 9, 2020 [–]

points for spelling globbing correctly :)

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