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From: "Bill McCormick" <wpmccormick AT covad DOT net>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Does cygwin do "find" a little bit differently?
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 11:33:49 -0500
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Steve,

It works for me:

Bill AT billhome/cygdrive/c
$ pwd
/cygdrive/c

Bill AT billhome/cygdrive/c
$ find . -name "boot.ini" -print
./boot.ini

Check your path env var or maybe update the find util.

Bill

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of Steve
> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 11:24 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Does cygwin do "find" a little bit differently?
> 
> 
> Hi;
> 
> I am on windows 2000 with cygwin.
> 
> My apologies if this isn't a cygwin issue.
> 
> I tried using find in cygwin with some examples from various 
> documentation on the command.
> 
> I kept getting the same error messages.  I was wondering if the cygwin 
> syntax was a bit different.
> 
> This is what I tried:
> 
> 
> 
> bash-2.05b$ pwd
> /cygdrive/c/CUP/VRC
> bash-2.05b$ find . -name "errors.txt" -print
> FIND: Parameter format not correct
> bash-2.05b$
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance, and my apologies if this is not a cygwin issue
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
> 
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