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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 07:06:43PM -0400, Wes S wrote:
>Drove myself nuts trying to figure out why my script ran fine from a 
>console and died under cron.
>
>Find is part of w2k,  cron doesn't seem to have a path unless I tell 
>it to.  I got the following:
>
>FIND: Invalid switch
>FIND: Parameter format not correct
>
>I should have directly specified path to find or put a path in my 
>script.
>
>Oh well, just wanted it out there for others that stubbed their foot 
>on this.  I don't want to say how long it took for me to figure this 
>out. 

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=FIND%3A+Parameter+format+not+correct+cygwin

cgf

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