Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:39:59 +0100
From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
The case that fails is
find -name *.el
Because *.el matches something.
But
find -name m*.el
also matches something and it works.
As I explained in other messages, whether this works or not depends on
what files are there in the directory where you run the command (not
in the directory where `find' starts its search). This is specific to
each machine, so you will need to research this yourself. In
particular, the number of matching files (zero, one, or more than one)
matters.