Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/01/16/15:29:08
Hi Timo,
no bug, user error: On every *ix you normally need quotation to prevent the
shell from file globbing (wildcard expansion) before involing programs, like
find GtkRadiant -iname '*.cpp' -print
Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms AT icon-gmbh DOT de)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothee Besset [SMTP:timo AT qeradiant DOT com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 21:11
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: possible bug with find
>
> ok, maybe I really suck at unix stuff, but I think I have a weird and
> buggy
> behaviour with find:
>
> on a linux box (standard and recent slackware installation) I'm using
> find:
>
> tim AT lunatic:/usr/local/root_home/tim$ find --version
> GNU find version 4.1
>
> find GtkRadiant -iname *.cpp -print
> gets me all the .cpp files in my directories..
>
> if I type that in cygwin (I upgraded to the latest network install today
> to
> make sure)
> I get .. only 1 file out of the 104 it should find:
>
> administrator AT DOWTEST-SGL /cygdrive/e/Loki
> $ find GtkRadiant -iname *.cpp -print
> GtkRadiant/radiant/preferences.cpp
>
> administrator AT DOWTEST-SGL /cygdrive/e/Loki
> $ find -version
> GNU find version 4.1
>
> I don't see anything special about this file compared to all the others ..
>
> permissions are the same etc.
>
> unless I really suck that much with shell scripts .. I think this is a bug
>
> TTimo
>
>
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