[bug #14696] failure of find to search the filetree properly

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                 Summary: failure of find  to search the filetree properly
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Mon 10/03/05 at 11:10
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: mimis koltsakis
        Originator Email: address@hidden
             Open/Closed: Open
                 Release: 4.2.19
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

I was disconcerted to get the following (erroneous) result:

#### searching files ending in -comm from my home-dir:
address@hidden:~> find . -name *.comm | grep learning
./learning/aster/try1/demo001a.comm
./learning/aster/try2/try2.comm
./learning/aster/try3/try3.comm
./learning/aster/forma03a/forma03a.comm
./learning/aster/xxx1.comm
./learning/aster/zzzz121/zzzz121a.comm
./learning/aster/zzzz121/zzzz121b.comm
./learning/aster/zzzz121/zzzz121c.comm
./learning/aster/demo001a/demo001a.comm

#### descending into learning/aster causes "find" to fail descending into the
tree (dirs try1, try2, try3 etc - only the file xxx1.comm is located)
address@hidden:~> cd learning/aster/
address@hidden:~/learning/aster> find . -name *.comm
./xxx1.comm

#### my find version:
address@hidden:~/learning/aster> find --version
GNU find version 4.2.19

#### my linux version (SuSE 9.3):
address@hidden:~/learning/aster> uname -a
Linux goldberg 2.6.11.4-20a-default #1 Wed Mar 23 21:52:37 UTC 2005 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux







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