Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-ID: <20010914192135.48985.qmail@web14701.mail.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 12:21:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Augustus Saunders Subject: Re: Another find missing arg to -exec prob.. To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Simon, DOS doesn't consider the semicolon to be a special character (unlike bash, where it's a statement seperator). So by backslashing that final semicolon, find doesn't see it. However, when I run the command at a dos shell, I get: /usr/bin/FIND: grep: No such file or directory /usr/bin/FIND: grep: No such file or directory /usr/bin/FIND: grep: No such file or directory etc for each .c file. That's because when you run like this, you haven't got all your fun cygwin environment set up. Since you're giving an explicit path to find, I can tell that you don't have cygwin\bin both. This means that when find runs, grep isn't on the path. Try this: f:\cygwin\bin\find . -name *.c -exec /usr/bin/grep -n -e blah {} \dev\null ; This got me the same results in my DOS shell as running find . -name *.c -exec grep -n -e blash {} \; did in my bash shell. Good luck- Augustus --Simon Heffer wrote:-- >HI, > >I'm trying to run this from EMACSNT and getting the missing argument to >-exec message... > >f:\cygwin\bin\find . -name *.c -exec grep -n -e blah {} \dev\null \; > >Any thoughts, > >Simon Heffer ( simon DOT heffer AT royalblue DOT com) __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/