[bug #30103] find -name \* doesn't match for (some) special chars (especially chinese)

[Torge Husfeldt]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30103>

                 Summary: find -name \* doesn't match for (some) special
chars (especially chinese)
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: torgehusfeldt
            Submitted on: Thu 10 Jun 2010 09:53:37 AM GMT
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Wrong result
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 4.4.2
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

Hi,
i would expect "*" (correctly escaped from the shell) to match _anything_,
yet some special chars (apparently we're talking chinese here -- the test case
is derived from live data) do not belong to that category.

To reproduce:
$ mkdir test
$ cd test/
$(echo -ne '\xbc\xc3.txt')
$ ls -1
??.txt
$ find . -name \*

output:
<nothing>
expected output:
<same as find without -name parameter>

I did a rough search for existing bugs, but didn't find anything.

Thanks.




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