Recursive find in "ls" utility doesn't seem to always work...

[Tim Schoenfelder]

Hi,

I manned the "ls" utility and it recommended reporting this to the above 
email address.


My version of ls is:

ls --version
ls (fileutils) 4.1.9
Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie.

Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

My story:
I was attempting to find all of the *.exe files in a win95 cdrom 
(troubleshooting an install on an older PC) so I tried the following 
command:

ls -aR *.exe

while in the mounted CD's win95 directory.  I also tried the above 
without the "a" option with no luck.  I even took the wildcard out and 
used a specific filename such as

ls -aR wowkit.exe

which failed(reported nothing).  However, when I used a blanked 
recursive call through a pipe such as

ls -aR | grep wowkit.exe

reported

wowkit.exe

additionally

ls -aR | grep .exe

successfully reported all of the exe files on the cdrom.  Could you 
please help me fix this?

Sincerely,
Tim Schoenfelder
cc: Steve, a linux fluent friend...