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Subject:	find and /cygdrive/c
From:	Jim Easton <jim AT cs DOT ualberta DOT ca>
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Date:	Wed, 5 Apr 2006 03:26:04 -0600 (MDT)
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Hi People,

Find does not seem able to search the /cygdrive/c directory.

example:

$ find /cygdrive/c -iname \*Telus\* -print
find: .: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/AUTOEXEC.BAT: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/AVG7QT.DAT: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/boot.ini: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/Config.Msi: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/CONFIG.SYS: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/cygwin: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/cygwin.disk: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/hpfr3600.log: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/IO.SYS: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/MSDOS.SYS: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/NTDETECT.COM: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/ntldr: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/Program Files: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/RECYCLER: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/System Volume Information: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/Temp: No such file or directory
find: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS: No such file or directory
$ 

Whereas the following does work;

$ find /cygdrive/c/Temp -iname \*Telus\* -print
/cygdrive/c/Temp/telus
$ 

or:

$ cd /cygdrive/c
$ find . -iname \*Telus\* -print
./cygwin/home/jim/backup/maggie/Favorites/my account  myTELUS.url
./cygwin/home/jim/telus
./Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/TELUS
./Documents and Settings/jim/Cookies/jim AT ads DOT mytelus[1].txt
...
There was lots more

I get the impression that /cygdrive/c is not a real directory.

The version of find I was using is:

$ find -version
GNU find version 4.2.25
Features enabled: LEAF_OPTIMISATION 
$ 

Thanks in advance.

	Jim

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