Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:44:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Steve cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Does cygwin do "find" a little bit differently? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Steve wrote: > 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 Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/