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		AdieuToLogic on June 16, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Art of Command Line > I think this will glob unless you escape the asterisks. The majority of times, this is the case. At least one exception is when the shell pattern does not match one or more files in the directory which find(1) is executed. However, this can be "surprising" so it's best practice to either use escapes or ensure interpolation is disabled via single quotes (in Bourne shell syntax). > Also on my system (debian 8) I need to put the directory to search first... FWIW, you can specify more than one directory if desired. The primaries will be applied to the results of each.

wnoise on June 16, 2015 [–]

> The majority of times, this is the case. At least one exception is when the shell pattern does not match one or more files in the directory

Thankfully zsh has the NULLGLOB option which will do the right thing and expand to an empty list, of the zero matching files.

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