Simple find command does not work for * .html

[Matthew Movafaghi]

It was user error... of course.  Thanks for the fix.

I was just trying to find all writiable files of certain types.


However, the command
'find /cygdrive/d -type f -perm -u+w -name \*.html' will sometimes not find 
a writable file when windows thinks that it is.  When viewed with ls -l, the 
file doe not look writable, but when viewed with dir *.html /A-r /S from a 
cmd prompt the file shows up.

Any thoughts?




Thanks for your help, Matt


>From: ericblake@comcast.net (Eric Blake)
>To: Matthew Movafaghi <mattmova@hotmail.com>, cygwin@cygwin.com
>Subject: Re: Simple find command does not work for * .html
>Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 19:59:58 +0000
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> > For some reason the following find command will not complete for *.html.
> >
> > It says: find: paths must precede expression....
>
>User error.  Remember that the shell does filename globbing before
>find ever sees its input (unless you have done set -f in a POSIX shell).
>If the current directory contains .html files, then you really are
>causing a syntax error.
>
> > `find d:\ -type f -perm -u+w -name *.properties`
>
>Try 'echo find d:\ -type f -perm -u+w -name *.html' to see what you
>were really doing, then try
>'find d:\ -type f -perm -u+w -name \*.html'
>to fix it.  And while you are at it, since this is cygwin, try
>'find /cygdrive/d -type f -perm -u+w -name \*.html'
>to get rid of that pesky backslash (are you in a cmd.com shell,
>explaining why you didn't quote it properly?) and behave more
>unixy.
>
>--
>Eric Blake
>volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer
>
>



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