Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/06/15/00:02:23
Weiqi Gao wrote:
>
> Myknees wrote:
> >
> > I issue the command: find . -name "text.zip"
> > ...and find says: FIND: Parameter format not correct
> >
> > if I say: find /elc/trash -name 'text.zip' -print
> > find says: FIND: Parse Error 3
>
> There is a FIND.EXE command that's part of DOS. It's usually in C:\DOS
> (DOS 6.x) or C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND (Windows 95). Rename that FIND.EXE to
> something else, and try again.
I did
cd \djgpp\bin
ln -s find.exe gfind.exe
and now I use `gfind', since I believe there are some things that expect
to run `find' and get the DOS utility (which, btw, is an extraordinarily
broken `grep').
I did similar things for commands like `echo' and `sort'.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com
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