Elementary Problem with find

Tue Oct 21 18:19:00 GMT 1997

I suspect you are using the wrong 'find'. For example, i found myself
inadvertently using the NT flavor of find instead of the bash flavor...turns
out my PATH had /WINNT/systemm32 prior to /gnuwin32/../bin.
I created the following alias to combat this:
alias f='//D/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/find.exe'
John Gibb
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-----Original Message-----
From: GBradfor <GBradfor@fhssmtp.redstone.army.mil>
To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 21, 1997 5:35 PM
Subject: Elementary Problem with find
> This is, more than likely, a true newbie problem. I've searched the
> back issues of the mailing list, and there are no other reports of
> this problem. So, it's probably just me; but just in case...
>> find is failing to take valid command strings. I am running b18 under
> Windows95.
>> Example case:
> find . -name *.c -print
>> The cygwin32 version gives the following error:
> FIND: Parameter format not correct
>> Running this same command on my Linux box gives the appropriate file
> listing.
>> I have also tried variations on this same theme:
> find <absolute path name (with both '\' and '/')> -name *.c -print
> find -name *.c -print /* no starting pathname; use present */
> /* directory as default. */
> find . -name "*.c" -print
> find . -name '*.c' -print
>> The most interesting was:
> find "<absolute pathname>" -name *.c -print
> find ignored what was in quotes and interpretted everything else as
> search paths.
>> Any suggestions on this?
>> /s/
> Pat Bradford
>> Reply to:
> gbradfor@redstone.army.mil
> AND/OR
> p_n_brad@traveller.com
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