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From: gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com
To: GBradfor <GBradfor@fhssmtp.redstone.army.mil>
Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: CONTINUING Elementary Problems with Find
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 18:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <344EA128.6FDF@prs.cs.fujitsu.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00084699.3272@fhssmtp.redstone.army.mil>

Hi, 

>      Taking my initial command line:
>         find . -name *.c -print
> 
>      gives the following error:
>         find:  Paths must precede expression
>         Usage:  find [path...] [expression]

The shell have expanded "*.c" into several filenames before execute
find.
May be, do you want to do as bellow?

	find . -print | grep '\.c'
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  reply	other threads:[~1997-10-22 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-10-22  7:51 GBradfor
1997-10-22 18:52 ` gnu-win32-request [this message]
1997-10-22 22:14 ` Weiqi Gao
1997-10-23 14:42 ` Michael Hirmke
1997-10-22 20:35 Robert Seeger
1997-10-22 23:44 Colin Peters
1997-10-23  9:23 ` Weiqi Gao
1997-10-23  6:10 Earnie Boyd

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