Find all .desktop files in my system – failed

[Johnny Rosenberg]

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here (I am a beginner too, since a
few years back…), but obviously I misunderstood the find command
completely:
~$ sudo find / -iname *.desktop 2>/dev/null
/home/guraknugen/examples.desktop
/home/video/examples.desktop
/etc/skel/examples.desktop
~$

But, in /usr/share/applications/ there are loads of .desktop files.
Why are they not found?

Then I tried this:
~$ cd /usr/share/applications/
applications$ sudo find . -iname *.desktop 2>/dev/null
applications$

Then:
applications$ sudo find . -iname *.desktop
find: paths must precede expression: anjuta.desktop
Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-Olevel] [-D
help|tree|search|stat|rates|opt|exec] [path...] [expression]
applications$

I am not sure I understand the error message. Path must precede
expression, yes, but isn't that exactly the case?

Confused…



Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg
ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ