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Re: Does cygwin do "find" a little bit differently?


Hi Steve

It is almost certain that you have MS Windows paths prior to cygwin/bin
in your PATH and so you are picking up MS' find rather than the Cygwin
find.

Try

which find

HTH

Don Sharp


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
> 
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