Actually I was trying to achieve just the opposite: to prevent * expansion. And the only solution I've found so far was to explicitly forbid pathname expansion with shell -f option:Did we try \* in the mix at all? And \\* \\\* etc as needed (once it took \\\\\\\*)
Yea, we actually did. This helps to avoid expansion but then find interprets \ literally in ! -path './bb\*' so the pattern doesn't really match anything useful. -Sasha
