From: Larry Hall <lhall@rfk.com>
To: GBradfor <GBradfor@fhssmtp.redstone.army.mil>, gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Elementary Problem with find
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 06:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2.2.32.19971022132755.00965c8c@ma.ultranet.com> (raw)
At 02:53 PM 10/21/97 -0500, GBradfor wrote:
> 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
Are you sure you are getting the gnuwin32 version of find and not the
Windows version? The error you get seems to indicate this.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
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next reply other threads:[~1997-10-22 6:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-22 6:38 Larry Hall [this message]
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1997-10-22 20:41 raf
1997-10-23 2:21 ` Tage Westlund
1997-10-25 12:17 ` Michael Hirmke
1997-10-21 23:17 Sergey Okhapkin
1997-10-21 18:19 John Gibb
1997-10-22 4:14 ` Paul Kirkaas
1997-10-21 14:54 GBradfor
1997-10-22 1:08 ` Claus Brod
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