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RE: Does cygwin do "find" a little bit differently?
- From: "Bill McCormick" <wpmccormick at covad dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:33:49 -0500
- Subject: RE: Does cygwin do "find" a little bit differently?
- Reply-to: <wpmccormick at covad dot net>
Steve,
It works for me:
Bill@billhome/cygdrive/c
$ pwd
/cygdrive/c
Bill@billhome/cygdrive/c
$ find . -name "boot.ini" -print
./boot.ini
Check your path env var or maybe update the find util.
Bill
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Steve
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:24 AM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: Does cygwin do "find" a little bit differently?
>
>
> Hi;
>
> I am on windows 2000 with cygwin.
>
> My apologies if this isn't a cygwin issue.
>
> I tried using find in cygwin with some examples from various
> documentation on the command.
>
> I kept getting the same error messages. I was wondering if the cygwin
> syntax was a bit different.
>
> This is what I tried:
>
>
>
> bash-2.05b$ pwd
> /cygdrive/c/CUP/VRC
> bash-2.05b$ find . -name "errors.txt" -print
> FIND: Parameter format not correct
> bash-2.05b$
>
>
> Thanks in advance, and my apologies if this is not a cygwin issue
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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