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: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:44:23 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Dave Korn cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: please help! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 PCYMTNQREAIYR -- LNFTSH. (I'm getting rather tired of typing in the whole "Please configure your mailer to not quote raw e-mail addresses in your replies" spiel -- perhaps I should add the above to the OLOCA). More below. On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Igor Pechtchanski > > Sent: 31 March 2004 17:22 > > > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Dave Korn wrote: > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > > > > Sent: 31 March 2004 17:11 > > > > > > >On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, fdr wrote: > > > > > > > > but this command in the sccript is not execute: > > > > > find /cygdrive/c/cygwin/temp -mmim 10 -print | xargs rm -f > > > > > > > Seriously, though, what is the error you get from "find"? Is it > > > > "FIND: Parameter format not correct"? If so, have you seen > > > > ? > > > > > > Well, when I try it I get > > > > > > dk AT mace /davek> find /cygdrive/c/cygwin/temp -mmim 10 -print > > > find: invalid predicate `-mmim' > > > > > > Does Florent perhaps mean -mmin ? > > > > FWIW, considering that he said that his script worked in > > bash, I dismissed it as a typo. > > Igor > > Well, he/she (I don't like guessing at gender in foreign languages!) also AFAIK, Florent is a male name in French, but you're absolutely right -- I should have used something gender-neutral, like "the OP"... :-) > said it worked on Debian. Given that there's no cygdrive in Debian, the > command has been retyped and modified at least once. The question is if the Unless the directory is a parameter... > typo was introduced between running it on Debian and running it on Cygwin, > or between running it on Cygwin and writing a post to the list about it. > Which leads me to.... > > DAVEK'S TIP OF THE DAY: > ----------------------- > Don't *ever* retype stuff when you're sending an email to the list. > *Always* cut and paste it, so that both you and the list members can be sure > that what it says in your email is exactly what it says on your computer! > Accuracy is everything - what use is it to get help from someone to solve a > different problem than the one you actually have? This might not be such a bad idea... Suppose we had a list of those tips (a la Yahoo Mail) and displayed a new one on the Cygwin list page every day? They could be pretty obvious, too (like "See the Cygwin FAQ before posting") -- you never know... Assuming CGF doesn't veto this, care to maintain the list? ;-) 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/