find

http://www.mediacollege.com/cgi-bin/man/page.cgi?topic=find

NON-BUGS

       $ find . -name *.c -print
       find: paths must precede expression
       Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]

       This  happens  because  *.c has been expanded by the shell resulting in
       find actually receiving a command line like this:

       find . -name bigram.c code.c frcode.c locate.c -print

       That command is of course not going to work.  Instead of  doing  things
       this way, you should enclose the pattern in quotes:
       $ find . -name ?*.c? -print