diff --git a/episodes/07-find.md b/episodes/07-find.md index a5713a132..5b3ca7deb 100644 --- a/episodes/07-find.md +++ b/episodes/07-find.md @@ -650,10 +650,10 @@ Once you have thought about your answer, you can test the commands in the ## Solution -Option 1. is correct. Putting the match expression in quotes prevents the shell +Option 1 is correct. Putting the match expression in quotes prevents the shell expanding it, so it gets passed to the `find` command. -Option 2 is also works in this instance because the shell tries to expand `*.dat` +Option 2 also works in this instance because the shell tries to expand `*.dat` but there are no `*.dat` files in the current directory, so the wildcard expression gets passed to `find`. We first encountered this in