Re: Elementary Problem with find

["John Gibb" <jgibb1@ix.netcom.com>]

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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