Hi,
I have script which searches a specified directory for a particular file. I pass in 2 parameters into the script, the path and the filename. The problem is that I can only pass in the exact file name, if I want to look for a file that begins with f*, it only finds 1 record and if I passed it 'f*', it gives me the following error message:
find: bad option file2
find: path-list predicate-list
file2 is the name of my script. This is what is in the script:
find $1 -name $2 -exec ls -l \{\} \;

If I do a find2.ksh ~ 'f*', I get the error message as shown above. Anyone knows how I can stop this.
Thanks.

find $1 -name "*$2*" -exec ls -l {} \;

to avoid multiples:
find $1 -name "$2" -exec ls -l {} \;

also
set -x in the script for debugging

thank you for the replies.
i would like to be able to search for multiple records.
could you please explain how to use the -x for debugging in the script.
thanks once again