[bug #62255] find -iname *Word* and find -iname *word* give different results

anonymous <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Follow-up Comment #1, bug #62255 (project findutils):

it seems the wildcard in front and behind of compact turned it into bold


[comment #0 original submission:]
> find (GNU findutils) 4.9.0
> Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
> 
> I was trying to find a file by name that contains the word: compact not sure
if capitalized or not
> 
> so I used 
> user@computer:~$ find -iname *compact*
> and got one result, not the file I was looking for
> 
> then I tried
> user@computer:~$ find -iname *Compact*
> and got 7 results including the previous one, my file was there
> 
> (originally on 4.8 that comes preinstalled, installed 4.9.0 and got the same
results)
> 


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