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Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 13:28:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: "Sharma, Subodh" <Ssharma AT maidenform DOT com>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Find not working
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On Tue, 20 May 2003, Sharma, Subodh wrote:

> Hello everybody!
> I'm a new cygwin user. I'm not been able to execute FIND command at all.
> For example I'm issuing following statement in a shell script
>
> find $EDIHOME/mailbox/*/ -name i.*.* -exec mv {} $EDIHOME/archive/datain/
> While executing this, I'm getting following error:  "FIND: Parameter
> format not correct". But if I execute following ls command then I'm
> getting correct results.
>
> ls $EDIHOME/mailbox/*/i.*.*
>
> Please help me.
> Subodh

Subodh,

You are not getting Cygwin's "find", because of the way your PATH is set.
See <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC42>.
	Igor
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