[ale] Baffled on chmod usage

[Jhubbs at niit.com (Jeff Hubbs)]

I want to chmod all the .exe files within and below the directory "public,"
so I go:

	# cd /<path>/public
	# chmod -Rv 555 *.exe

but I get

	chmod: *.exe: No such file or directory

FWIW, there are no .exe files in public, but there are many of them
scattered in directories underneath public.  What I especially don't
understand is that if I go 

	# chmod -Rv 555 *

then everything and its brother in public and below gets chmodded.  I can
use some other extension besides .exe that I know is present but I still get
No such file or directory.

Am I misusing wildcards in bash or something?

- Jeff
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