From: "Rick Rankin" <rrankin@primenet.com>
To: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>,
"David's Lightspeed Email" <dpainter@lightspeed.net>,
<cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Subject: RE: Problems with "find" and job control.
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 16:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <NCBBLBLBNJPLCPKCBIIIOEGMCCAA.rrankin@primenet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: < 000c01be6dad$321acea0$41cd78cf@hunda >
> >
> >My "find" command does not seem to be working properly.
> Regardless of what
> >options I give it, it always complains about the parameters being wrong.
> >
> >For example, here is a simple command:
> >
> >$ find . -name sh.exe -print
>
> you are typing a wrong thing. You need to put quotes around sh.exe.
>
> find . -name "sh.exe" -print
Actually, the name parameter only requires quotes if it contains wildcards.
His problems, as others have stated, is that he is executing the windows
find command and not the cygwin one.
Rick
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From: "Rick Rankin" <rrankin@primenet.com>
To: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>,
"David's Lightspeed Email" <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: <NCBBLBLBNJPLCPKCBIIIOEGMCCAA.rrankin@primenet.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990331194500.2cK4DobZrO8g9Ci12ReoZ7GPchDbdkZddP_gclKxvME@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000c01be6dad$321acea0$41cd78cf@hunda>
> >
> >My "find" command does not seem to be working properly.
> Regardless of what
> >options I give it, it always complains about the parameters being wrong.
> >
> >For example, here is a simple command:
> >
> >$ find . -name sh.exe -print
>
> you are typing a wrong thing. You need to put quotes around sh.exe.
>
> find . -name "sh.exe" -print
Actually, the name parameter only requires quotes if it contains wildcards.
His problems, as others have stated, is that he is executing the windows
find command and not the cygwin one.
Rick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-03-13 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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 [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1999-03-15 8:02 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 16:14 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
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 15:41 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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