Franklin52: That's not it, single quotes are stronger than double, so the result should be the same (you want to prevent the asterisk from being expanded by the shell).
blt123: can you run the interactive shell with
-x too?
Code:
prompt$ ksh -x
$ find . ! -name 'file*' -mtime -1
+ find . ! -name file* -mtime -1
.
./test_purge
./test_purge/file_test_purge_subdir.txt
./file_sqr_test.txt
./file.txt
$ exit
+ exit
