From: dbe@wgn.net ("$Bill Luebkert") Subject: Re: `find' command broken. 11 Jul 1997 19:20:53 -0700 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <33C66B2C.6D8C.cygnus.gnu-win32@wgn.net> References: <19970711092719531.AAA303@TENDLE> Reply-To: dbe@wgn.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) Original-To: john.cooper@digitivity.com Original-CC: GNU-Win32@cygnus.com, Amol Deshpande Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com John Cooper wrote: > > Since cmd.exe doesn't do any globbing, the following should presumably work: > > H:\ef>find . -name *.c -print > find: paths must precede expression > Usage: find [path...] [expression] > H:\ef> > > I'm actually using the early zsh release, and get the same result when I run > `find . -name *.c -print' . > > Oddly, this does work under bash. Can anyone explain this? It shouldn't work under either, you need to escape the wildcards, try: find . -name '*.c' -print I tried it under tcsh and it failed also. It said: FIND: Parameter format not correct Presumably I got a different find in my path, because when I fully qualified the path it worked ok, ie: C:/gnuwin32/b18/H-i386-cygwin32/bin/find . -name '*.c' -print I'll have to go do a search and see which find's are on my path cause which isn't working on tcsh. -- ,-/- __ _ _ $Bill Luebkert (_/ / ) // // DBE Collectibles / ) /--< o // // http://www.wgn.net/~dbe/ -/-' /___/_<_