From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
To: <hcobb@telegenisys.com>
Cc: <dpainter@lightspeed.net>, <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: Problems with "find" and job control.
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003301be6daf$950045c0$41cd78cf@hunda> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990331194500.WIhAV3iKJJeMeauj93gVxjGxZfWeWZuI8dLwtoqLkn0@z> (raw)
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>Sorry, but the error message:
>
> FIND: Parameter format not correct
>
>is a pure M$ism. (Just type \winnt\system32\find to "find" this message)
>
Agree!!!
As Corinna said, if you are having this problem, I would rather rename MS
find.exe. Windows NT find.exe is useless anyway.
>Depending on the paths to sort things out gives you different results
>depending on the context you're working from.
>
>Personally, I would NOT want my BAT scripts to behave differently depending
>on where they're running from.
>
>Also you only need to quote the name of the file you're looking for (under
>gnu-find or gfind for short) when the filename includes a wildcard.
>
>Anybody gona write Cygwin in a nutshell for O'Reily? (It's such a pain to
>flip back and forth between the eNp-Ty and Linux books. ;-)
Are you planing to do it?
>
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-13 16:14 Suhaib M. Siddiqi [this message]
[not found] ` < 003301be6daf$950045c0$41cd78cf@hunda >
1999-03-13 16:25 ` Which command to bump when M$ is non-posixish Henry J. Cobb
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Problems with "find" and job control Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Which command to bump when M$ is non-posixish Henry J. Cobb
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-03-15 8:02 Problems with "find" and job control Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-13 17:33 Sergey Okhapkin
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Sergey Okhapkin
1999-03-13 16:07 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-13 15:58 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] ` < 001101be6dad$6cc1c2c0$41cd78cf@hunda >
1999-03-13 16:11 ` Henry J. Cobb
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Henry J. Cobb
1999-03-13 15:57 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-13 16:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
[not found] ` < 000c01be6dad$321acea0$41cd78cf@hunda >
1999-03-13 16:18 ` Rick Rankin
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Rick Rankin
1999-03-15 8:00 ` Simao Campos
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Simao Campos
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-13 15:41 David's Lightspeed Email
[not found] ` < 00cf01be6daa$7c9d3ce0$cf39a5d1@www.lightspeed.net >
1999-03-13 15:47 ` Henry J. Cobb
1999-03-13 15:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-03-13 16:08 ` Weiqi Gao
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Weiqi Gao
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
[not found] ` <199903132347.AAA11826@mail2.cityweb.de>
1999-03-13 15:58 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-03-13 16:05 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Corinna Vinschen
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Henry J. Cobb
1999-03-31 19:45 ` David's Lightspeed Email
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