Subject: Re: Elementary Problem with find
From: [email-masked] (Claus Brod)

22 Oct 1997 01:59:10 -0700
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To: GBradfor <[email-masked]>
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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

It seems that your shell is picking up the NT version of "find" which
has a completely different parameter syntax. You might want to change
your search path slightly so that the GNU utilities are found first.

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