On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Shankar Unni wrote: > lin q wrote: > > > $ find . -type f -print > > find: paths must precede expression > > Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]
This message is produced by GNU find. "find -name a ." will result in such. > > Do you see anything wrong? > > > > $ which find > > /usr/bin/find > > This combo means that you have C:\Windows\System32 in your PATH environment > before C:\cygwin\bin. Either flip these around, or in your .bashrc, prepend > /usr/bin to the PATH. Nope, if "which find" reports /usr/bin/find, /usr/bin/find *is* first in the PATH. > If you had followed http://cygwin.com/problems.html , we might not have to > read minds or use other psychic/telepathic access to debug this.. Since we're talking telepathy here, I'd guess that find is aliased to 'find -mindepth <something>' (as someone else suggested already). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "The Sun will pass between the Earth and the Moon tonight for a total Lunar eclipse..." -- WCBS Radio Newsbrief, Oct 27 2004, 12:01 pm EDT -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
