[ale] weird "find" behavior

[yahoo at jimpop.com (Jim Popovitch)]

On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 01:27 -0500, Brian Pitts wrote:
> > Right, but why does *.c work BUT not *.h, both without shell expansion
> > (which is what my WTF was all about).
> > 
> > -Jim P.
> 
> *.c works because there are no files ending in .c for the shell to 
> expand that expression to. *.h fails because there are. Like Greg said
> 
> "If the current directory has no *.c files, then your first command
> works by chance.
> 
> If it has some *.h files, then it fails due to standard shell
> expression expansion."
> 
> In other words,
> 
> ls | grep "\.c"
> 
> returns nothing, whereas
> 
> ls | grep "\.h"
> 
> shows something.
> 
> You can verify that shell expansion is taking place using strace.

Doh!  I saw "shell expansion" and thought "quoted text"  (doing 3 things
at the same time right now...)

Thanks Brian and Greg.

-Jim P.