Find misses a match to glob pattern unless the pattern is made more specific

Question

I was using find to search for a file on my machine like so:

find / -name version-1.0.*

and the result was just one file in my home directory, version-1.0.23. However, if I ran the following:

find / -name version-1.0.1*

the result was /data/somelongpath/version-1.0.19.

Why would this second result be omitted from the results in the first case?

Answer 1

You have a file that matches the glob in the current directory, and your shell is globbing it. Escape the glob.

find / -name 'version-1.0.*'