find question marks in file names

[raison]

I am trying to use the find tool to look for files that contains the question mark in their names. I am using:

find . -name *\?* -print

But that is displaying all the files in the current directory. What is the proper way?

 

[fat jez]

the . in between your find command and -name means current working directory, which is why it's only looking there, i.e.

. current working directory
.. parent directory

 

[mfram]

You need to put single quotes around the filename part:

imac:~> find . -name '*\?*'
./bin/foo?

imac:~> find . -name *\?*
find: No match.

The reason is because without the single quotes the shell will expand your *\?* in place which is not what you want.