error invoking commands preceded by '\' from bash shell

2010-03-22 Thread csw
: C:\cygwin\bin\gcc.exe: command not found The particular command does not seem to matter. I used gcc here because it was the command I discovered this problem with. Does anyone know why it makes a difference if the last character before the command is a '/' or a '\'? Thanks, -csw Runnning

RE: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2001-03/msg01023.html reply

2006-12-08 Thread Voss, Douglas C @ CSW-SLC
I'm not sure how this works to put up a reply, but having the same problem, I found a solution not included in the followups: Try it without the \ before the ; c:\cygwin\bin\find.exe . -name files to search pattern -exec c:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe search string '{}' \; -print /usr/bin/find: