From:	myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: djgpp find OK?
Date:	15 Jun 1998 23:03:36 GMT
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 980615094050 DOT 9030H-100000 AT is>, Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> writes:

>> cd \djgpp\bin
>> ln -s find.exe gfind.exe
>
>This will only work for interactive jobs.  But if you have a shell script 
>or a Makefile which need `find' you will still get the DOS version.

That's what I did with date for interactive use.  For portable shell scripts I
suppose you'd say something like:

#! $DJDIR/bin/sh

if [ "$DJGPP" = "" ]; then
    FINDDIR=
else
    FINDDIR=$DJDIR/bin
fi

# ...

--Ed (Myknees)

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