From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: Cc: , Subject: Re: Problems with "find" and job control. Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <003301be6daf$950045c0$41cd78cf@hunda> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00417.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.WIhAV3iKJJeMeauj93gVxjGxZfWeWZuI8dLwtoqLkn0@z> - >Sorry, but the error message: > > FIND: Parameter format not correct > >is a pure M$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? > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com