Find not working

Igor Pechtchanski pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu
Tue May 20 22:05:00 GMT 2003


On Tue, 20 May 2003, Sharma, Subodh wrote:

> Hello everybody!
> I'm a new cygwin user. I'm not been able to execute FIND command at all.
> For example I'm issuing following statement in a shell script
>
> find $EDIHOME/mailbox/*/ -name i.*.* -exec mv {} $EDIHOME/archive/datain/
> While executing this, I'm getting following error:  "FIND: Parameter
> format not correct". But if I execute following ls command then I'm
> getting correct results.
>
> ls $EDIHOME/mailbox/*/i.*.*
>
> Please help me.
> Subodh

Subodh,

You are not getting Cygwin's "find", because of the way your PATH is set.
See <http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.html#SEC42>.
	Igor
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