Just a small thought.. You don't happen to have a file named preferences.cpp in /cygdrive/e/Loki ?? Normally bash expands the *.cpp to match all files it matches before sending it to find.. Bash seems to have begun with a smart habit of deciding when to glob, and not to glob.. /Andy -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple