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 > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/