Re: Does cygwin do "find" a little bit differently?

On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, 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 > synt

RE: Does cygwin do "find" a little bit differently?

Steve, It works for me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/cygdrive/c $ pwd /cygdrive/c [EMAIL PROTECTED]/cygdrive/c $ find . -name "boot.ini" -print ./boot.ini Check your path env var or maybe update the find util. Bill > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf >

Re: Does cygwin do "find" a little bit differently?

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 iss