From: sab AT seanet DOT com (Scott Blachowicz) Subject: Re: running gnu-win32 tools under another Unix-ported shell? 10 Jan 1998 05:49:10 -0800 Message-ID: <199801100207.SAA10193.cygnus.gnu-win32@two.sabami.seaslug.org> References: Reply-To: sab AT seanet DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: cgf AT bbc DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com cgf AT bbc DOT com (Christopher Faylor) wrote: > >I'm sometimes using a port of zsh (not the one built with the cygwin > >toolkit) and when I run the cygwin 'find' command, for instance, it acts > >as if the 'find' command (in its crt0 or whatever?) is expanding globs > >that it gets. I don't want that to happen because my shell is already > >doing that. So, if I do this: > > > > find . -name '*.cpp' -perm +222 -ls > > > >to find writeable .cpp files, I get this error: > > > > /usr/bin/find.EXE: paths must precede expression > > Usage: /usr/bin/find.EXE [path...] [expression] > > > >How do the cygwin commands detect their parent & avoid the globbing stuff > >when necessary if using the normal cygwin bash, for instance? Any > >suggestions? > > If you are running the cygwin version of find, this should happen > automatically. I am running zsh here and I do this all the time. Are you running the cygwin-built version of _zsh_? I am not. Scott Blachowicz sab AT seanet DOT com - 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".