Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: "Rick Rankin" To: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" , "David's Lightspeed Email" , Subject: RE: Problems with "find" and job control. Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:17:56 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2212 (4.71.2419.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0810.800 In-reply-to: <000c01be6dad$321acea0$41cd78cf@hunda> Importance: Normal > > > >My "find" command does not seem to be working properly. > Regardless of what > >options I give it, it always complains about the parameters being wrong. > > > >For example, here is a simple command: > > > >$ find . -name sh.exe -print > > you are typing a wrong thing. You need to put quotes around sh.exe. > > find . -name "sh.exe" -print Actually, the name parameter only requires quotes if it contains wildcards. His problems, as others have stated, is that he is executing the windows find command and not the cygwin one. Rick -- Rick Rankin rrankin@primenet.com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com