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Re: Elementary Problem with find
- To: GBradfor <GBradfor at fhssmtp dot redstone dot army dot mil>
- Subject: Re: Elementary Problem with find
- From: Claus Brod <claus_brod at bbn dot hp dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 08:38:20 +0200
- CC: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: CoCreate Software GmbH
- References: <00083B1C.3272@fhssmtp.redstone.army.mil>
GBradfor wrote:
>
> This is, more than likely, a true newbie problem. I've searched the
> back issues of the mailing list, and there are no other reports of
> this problem. So, it's probably just me; but just in case...
>
> find is failing to take valid command strings. I am running b18 under
> Windows95.
>
> Example case:
> find . -name *.c -print
>
> The cygwin32 version gives the following error:
> FIND: Parameter format not correct
It seems that your shell is picking up the NT version of "find" which
has a completely different parameter syntax. You might want to change
your search path slightly so that the GNU utilities are found first.
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