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: X-Originating-Email: [mattmova@hotmail.com] X-Sender: mattmova@hotmail.com From: "Matthew Movafaghi" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Simple find command does not work for * .html Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:48:36 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed For some reason the following find command will not complete for *.html. It says: find: paths must precede expression.... however, all of the other ones work. I searched on google and all I came up with was this. http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/hmjamieson/favs/my_favourites/?item=&display=full&index=0 If you search for "paths must" you will find another user who ran into a similar problem `find d:\ -type f -perm -u+w -name *.properties` `find d:\ -type f -perm -u+w -name *.html` for FILE in `find d:\ -type f -perm -u+w -name *.unittest` for FILE in `find $d:\ -type f -perm -u+w -name *.java` for FILE in `find ${ORIGINAL_DRIVE}${COPY_FOLDER} -type f -perm -u+w -name *.jsp` Thanks, Matt -- 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/