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RE: Problems with "find" and job control.
- To: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>, "David's Lightspeed Email" <dpainter@lightspeed.net>, <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: RE: Problems with "find" and job control.
- From: "Rick Rankin" <rrankin@primenet.com>
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:17:56 -0700
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> >
> >My "find" command does not seem to be working properly.
> Regardless of what
> >options I give it, it always complains about the parameters being wrong.
> >
> >For example, here is a simple command:
> >
> >$ find . -name sh.exe -print
>
> you are typing a wrong thing. You need to put quotes around sh.exe.
>
> find . -name "sh.exe" -print
Actually, the name parameter only requires quotes if it contains wildcards.
His problems, as others have stated, is that he is executing the windows
find command and not the cygwin one.
Rick
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