Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20021009194618.01fd4100@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 19:47:11 -0700 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: grep -i -R path32 * vs grep -i -R path32 *.vb* In-Reply-To: <20021009235817.59758.qmail@web40507.mail.yahoo.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sheryl, What is "the XP shell?" Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 16:58 2002-10-09, Sheryl McKeown wrote: >Hi Igor, > >I too am an avocate for find. However, I can't seem to >master it's usage in XP's shell. > >For instance, the find command you suggested > >"find . -name *.vb* -exec grep -ni path32 {} \; >-print" > >returns the error >find: missing argument to `-exec' > >in the XP shell. The command works fine in the bash >shell. > >More on the XP shell... > >... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/