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Re: Does cygwin do "find" a little bit differently?
- From: Don Sharp <dwsharp at iee dot org>
- To: gnuwin32 <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 17:29:17 +0100
- Subject: Re: Does cygwin do "find" a little bit differently?
- References: <beer4t$a0m$1@main.gmane.org>
Hi Steve
It is almost certain that you have MS Windows paths prior to cygwin/bin
in your PATH and so you are picking up MS' find rather than the Cygwin
find.
Try
which find
HTH
Don Sharp
Steve wrote:
>
> Hi;
>
> I am on windows 2000 with cygwin.
>
> My apologies if this isn't a cygwin issue.
>
> I tried using find in cygwin with some examples from various
> documentation on the command.
>
> I kept getting the same error messages. I was wondering if the cygwin
> syntax was a bit different.
>
> This is what I tried:
>
> bash-2.05b$ 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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