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Re: find




>The MS-DOS "find" is, I agree, useless.
>As for the "Windows" "find", found in the Windows Explorer Tools menu and
>also accessible by pressing F-3 normally, this is actually a decent tool.
>

I am not sure how F-3 will conflicts with Cygwin's find.exe?
Any suggestions please

--Suhaib


>                                     David L. Painter
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
>To: Rick Rankin <rrankin@primenet.com>
>Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
>Date: Saturday, March 13, 1999 5:23 PM
>Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control
>
>
>>
>>-
>>
>>>But are there really enough command name conflicts to justify all that? I
>>>haven't really checked, but the only one I'm really aware of is find, and
>>>the windows find command is pretty useless anyway.
>>
>>After a little back and forth writing you are basically syaing the same
>>thing
>>*Windows find is useless.*
>>
>>If you have Windows Nt UNIX option pack installed then there are a whole
>lot
>>of conflicts if you add Cygwin to your WinNT path.
>>
>>>Personally, I am
>>>perfectly happy putting the cygwin bin in my path ahead of windows or
>>winnt,
>>>but if there are other name clashes, perhaps another method is warranted.
>>>
>>
>>If I rememebr correctly, a while ago, some user wrote he deleted cmd.exe
>and
>>replaced is by bash.exe.  I think it is all personal preferences what you
>>like to see, do and are used to of.
>>
>>>Rick
>>>--
>>>Rick Rankin
>>>rrankin@primenet.com
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Suhaib M. Siddiqi [mailto:Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com]
>>>> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 1999 6:01 PM
>>>> To: Rick Rankin; cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
>>>> Subject: Re: find, ksh, and job control
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> >> If you are on NT do not include Cygwin to PATH.  Best start Cygwin
by
>>>> >                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>> >Why not? I have it in my path because I want to be able to run cygwin
>>>> >commands from bash or from cmd.exe.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> I can also run cygwin commands from cmd.exe.  For this purpose, I
>created
>>>> another batch file, called cygnus-dos.bat and replashed the *bash* with
>>>> *cmd*  If I start NT cmd.exe using this my *cygnus-dos.bat* file,
>>>> I can use
>>>> all of my cygwin commands from cmd.exe prompt, and stll do not get any
>>>> conflicts.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --SMS
>>>>
>>>> >Rick
>>>> >--
>>>> >Rick Rankin
>>>> >rrankin@primenet.com
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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