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[Jan B. Andersen]

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>when I do a 'find p* -mtime +1 -print'   in a directory with a large number of
>files starting with 'p', I get find: too many arguments.

The first argument to find(1) must the starting directory. Assuming that
you want to find *only* those files starting with 'p' in the current
directory use the command

  % find . -name 'p*' -mtime.....