From:	sab AT seanet DOT com (Scott Blachowicz)
Subject:	Re: running gnu-win32 tools under another Unix-ported shell?
10 Jan 1998 05:49:10 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<199801100207.SAA10193.cygnus.gnu-win32@two.sabami.seaslug.org>
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To:	cgf AT bbc DOT com
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor) wrote:

> >I'm sometimes using a port of zsh (not the one built with the cygwin
> >toolkit) and when I run the cygwin 'find' command, for instance, it acts
> >as if the 'find' command (in its crt0 or whatever?) is expanding globs
> >that it gets.  I don't want that to happen because my shell is already
> >doing that.  So, if I do this:
> >
> >    find . -name '*.cpp' -perm +222 -ls
> >
> >to find writeable .cpp files, I get this error:
> >
> >    /usr/bin/find.EXE: paths must precede expression
> >    Usage: /usr/bin/find.EXE [path...] [expression]
> >
> >How do the cygwin commands detect their parent & avoid the globbing stuff
> >when necessary if using the normal cygwin bash, for instance?  Any
> >suggestions?
> 
> If you are running the cygwin version of find, this should happen
> automatically.  I am running zsh here and I do this all the time.

Are you running the cygwin-built version of _zsh_?  I am not.

Scott Blachowicz
sab AT seanet DOT com
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