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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: What's the problem with find? Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 12:49:10 -0700 Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <001801c4343e$2d8c4280$1601a8c0@Alvyn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-64-165-207-59.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) In-Reply-To: <001801c4343e$2d8c4280$1601a8c0@Alvyn> Alvyn Liang wrote: > $ find / -name 'inline*' > find: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator: No such file or directory There's nothing wrong here. It's just that you don't have permission to open the Administrator home directory. On Windows, sometimes you'll see the "no such file or directory" error when you try to stat a directory or file to which you have no access. Try "ls -l C:/" : you'll see errors like the following: $ ls -l c:/ ls: c:/hiberfil.sys: No such file or directory ls: c:/pagefile.sys: No such file or directory total 1085 -rwxrwx---+ 1 Administ Administ 0 Sep 3 2002 AUTOEXEC.BAT ... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/