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Re: Question about "find"
- To: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Question about "find"
- From: Hmmmz <garbanzo at hooked dot net>
- Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 12:04:28 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, William A. Nagy wrote:
> Has anyone had success in getting "find" to work with the -exec option
> under the Windows shell (cmd.exe)? I've tried about every combination
> that I can think of, but I keep getting:
>
> find: missing argument to '-exec'
>
> Thanks.
Make sure you are using the gnu-wi32 find.exe and not the find.exe that
comes with Win95/NT. I fixed this on my computer by renaming the original
find.exe to ntfind.exe or 95find.exe
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