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Date:      Tue, 4 Jul 2006 15:10:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca>
To:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>, dick@nagual.st
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: find syntax
Message-ID:  <20060704191005.34812.qmail@web60016.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200607040803.k6483e9A029133@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>

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--- Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th> wrote:

> > #find /dir/to/htmlfile -name *.html -exec perl -p -i -e
> > "s/nagual.st/nagual.nl/g;" {} \;
> 
> You should escape the * that you pass to find:
> 
> -name \*.html

Or

-name "*.html"

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