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		How to accidentally get yourself with 'find -name something*' (utcc.utoronto.ca)
		2 points by ingve 26 days ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

rini17 26 days ago [–]

Well, learn to reflexively single-quote anything with metacharacters. If any file might have single quote in name and/or there are variable expansions involved...nuke it from orbit. Or switch to python.

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