From: Jon_Witort AT geoworks DOT com (Jon Witort) Subject: find.exe truncating search on / 20 Jun 1997 20:04:56 -0700 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199706210235.TAA23411.cygnus.gnu-win32@nasturtium.geoworks.com> Reply-To: Jon_Witort AT geoworks DOT com Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Let's try that again, only without a line containing only a single "." I'm having some trouble with find.exe v4.1 that doesn't seem to have been mentioned in either the FAQ or the archive for this group. The problem is that find.exe is truncating its search whenever it finds a directory with the same name as its parent, like so: 1> mkdir test\foo\foo 2> cd test 3> touch foo\foo\xyz 4> find ../foo ../foo/foo Notice that xyz was not found. Changing either of the foo's fixes the problem: 5> rename foo bar 6> find ../bar ../bar/foo ../bar/foo/xyz 7> find -version GNU find version 4.1 I've tried every variation I can think of, with the same results. If anyone knows of a workaround, I'd appreciate it. thanks, jon - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".