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Re: `find' command broken.
- To: James Dumser <dumser at ti dot com>
- Subject: Re: `find' command broken.
- From: "$Bill Luebkert" <dbe at wgn dot net>
- Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 18:10:30 -0700
- CC: GNU-Win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: DBE Collectibles
- References: <BMSMTP8688934660a0207776@dlemail.itg.ti.com>
- Reply-To: dbe at wgn dot net
James Dumser wrote:
> For things to work
> correctly with zsh, you'd have to start with
> find . -name '\'*.c\'' -print
Fails in tcsh:
Unmatched '.
> V which zsh would expand to
> find . -name '*.c' -print
> V which cygwin would expand to
Cygwin doesn't look at quotes in globify. It will glob
the *.c regardless of quotes (at least the way I read it).
> find . -name *.c -print
> which is what we want find to see
Exactly, but it never makes it to the program.
> So what's the solution? I can think of several:
> - don't use non-cygwin, globbing shells
> - use non-cygwin utilities
> - be very meticulous when you mix non-cygwin shells and cygwin programs
> - port your non-cygwin, globbing shell to cygwin (which should be easier
> now with Sergery's latest cygwin.dll)
What's the matter with fix Cygwin32 to handle quoting
properly for non-cygwin32 apps?
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