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*.pm globs without quoting, *.pl doesn't.
Can someone explain the following? I can use find on *.pm without quotes, but find on *.pl makes on error, I need quotes for the second version. What's up with that?

Code:
$find -name *.pm
./tieProxyStatus/Status.pm
$find -name *.pl
find: paths must precede expression
Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]
$find -name '*.pl'
./persistence/dbm/persistenceFileRead.pl
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'cause you do NOT have any .pm files in your current directory, but you DO have .pl file(s).

Without the quoting shell will expand the wildcards PRIOR invoking any command/find.
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Do you have any .pl files in the current directory? If so, the shell will expand '*.pl' into a list of files thus breaking the expectation of find. It may just happen that you don't have any files matching '*.pm' in your current directory so '*.pm' is passed verbatim to find. That's the expected behaviour.
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