On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Daniel Miller wrote:
> On linux systems, I typically to global searches with a command such as:
>
> find . -name "*.[ch]*" -exec grep -H -n stuff {} \;
>
> and this works nicely. However, when I try the same command under Cygwin
> (from a 4NT prompt, not Bash), I get "find: missing argument to '-exec' ".
> I tried a variety of modifications to the command but nothing makes this
> work. What am I missing??
I'd bet it's the fact that 4NT uses different quoting mechanisms than
bash. Try quoting the semicolon as ";" instead of \;. You may also need
to quote the braces. CGF uses 4NT, AFAIK, so he could probably provide
better hints. I won't ask the implied "Why not use bash?" question...
Igor
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