running gnu-win32 tools under another Unix-ported shell?
Christopher Faylor
cgf@bbc.com
Fri Jan 9 05:54:00 GMT 1998
In article < u1zyig5y3.fsf@seanet.com >,
Scott Blachowicz <sab@seanet.com> wrote:
>Hi-
>
>I'm sometimes using a port of zsh (not the one built with the cygwin
>toolkit) and when I run the cygwin 'find' command, for instance, it acts
>as if the 'find' command (in its crt0 or whatever?) is expanding globs
>that it gets. I don't want that to happen because my shell is already
>doing that. So, if I do this:
>
> find . -name '*.cpp' -perm +222 -ls
>
>to find writeable .cpp files, I get this error:
>
> /usr/bin/find.EXE: paths must precede expression
> Usage: /usr/bin/find.EXE [path...] [expression]
>
>How do the cygwin commands detect their parent & avoid the globbing stuff
>when necessary if using the normal cygwin bash, for instance? Any
>suggestions?
If you are running the cygwin version of find, this should happen
automatically. I am running zsh here and I do this all the time.
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