The Unix Shell: Finding Things. Different on-screen message from Git Bash.

[phwtsang]

When I ran the command "find . -name *.txt" in the shell-lesson-data/exercise-data folder, I got the following on-screen message:
find: paths must precede expression: 'numbers.txt'
find: possible unquoted pattern after predicate '-name'?

It is different from the episode's output: "./numbers.txt". It looks to me that the on-screen message is trying to correct the same mistake that the episode is trying to elucidate.

I am using Git Bash on a Windows laptop.

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[steve930]

Hello,
I followed along with the "Finding things" lesson and set up my working environment to use Git Bash.
When I run the command:
find . -name *.txt
I get the output of "./numbers.txt" listed in the lesson page.
When I run the command:
find . -name "*.txt"
I get the output of:
./writing/LittleWomen.txt
./writing/haiku.txt
./numbers.txt

I think from your error messages you provided that perhaps one of your quotation marks in the command you entered may have been misplaced, and that that might be the issue

[bkmgit]

@steve930 Thanks. @phwtsang Thanks for your feedback. Are you still getting an error? If so, what is your environment, in particular versions of Windows and GitBash?