Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/10/22/08:33:35
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 AT redstone DOT army DOT mil
> AND/OR
> p_n_brad AT traveller DOT 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 AT rfk DOT com
RFK Partners, Inc. (781) 239-1053
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