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Greg Mayman wrote:
>
> What it does NOT explain is the correct form to make a search
> that would find 'filename' which _might_ have an extension.

find / -name filename*

> Since I did not know whether 'wp' had an extension or not, 
> I needed to cover both forms. 

find / -name wp*

> Obviously I did it wrongly.

You put a . in your search which therefore only returns 
filenames that have a . in that position.  

Cheers,
Steven