[ale] Baffled on chmod usage

[Fulton Green]

You may need to prepend * with a backslash, as in \*.exe .

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 04:25:56PM -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I want to chmod all the .exe files within and below the directory "public,"
> so I go:
> 
> 	# cd /<path>/public
> 	# chmod -Rv 555 *.exe
> 
> but I get
> 
> 	chmod: *.exe: No such file or directory
> 
> FWIW, there are no .exe files in public, but there are many of them
> scattered in directories underneath public.  What I especially don't
> understand is that if I go 
> 
> 	# chmod -Rv 555 *
> 
> then everything and its brother in public and below gets chmodded.  I can
> use some other extension besides .exe that I know is present but I still get
> No such file or directory.
> 
> Am I misusing wildcards in bash or something?
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