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   rbowman to Rich   
   Re: Ridiculous Online Programming "Advic   
   12 Jan 26 08:05:04   
   
   From: bowman@montana.com   
      
   On Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:02:07 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote:   
      
      
   > You may want to quote the $1 expansion, or the find will complain the   
   > first time you do 'Find "something with spaces"'   
      
   $2 was the problem for my usage.   
      
   $ Find *.cpp "cout << buf"   
   ./winutils/tail.cpp:                              cout << buf << endl;   
   ./winutils/tail.cpp:                      cout << buf << endl;   
   ./winutils/tail.cpp:                                    cout << buf <<   
   endl;   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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