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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;