Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 11:12:53 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: backslashes for DOS pathna
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On Sun, 21 Apr 1996 j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com wrote:

> I had a problem with getting programs like find to interface properly with
> dos commands, so I wrote a little program called 'doscmd' that takes a
> Unix-style command line and converts it into a DOS command line,
> so:
> 
> find \cprogs -name "*.o" -exec doscmd del {} ';'
> 
> would work correctly.  Essentially, it just changes all forward slashes to

Rejoice!  The next version of GNU Find port to DJGPP has special actions 
-dosexec and -dosok that does this slash conversion automagically, so you 
just say

	find \cprogs -name "*.o" -dosexec del {} ;

and that's it!  (Btw, there is no need to quote the semicolon on MS-DOS.)
When DJ has time, he will put the new port on SimTel.