I'm not sure how this works to put up a reply, but having the same problem, I found a solution not included in the followups: Try it without the \ before the ; c:\cygwin\bin\find.exe . -name "files to search pattern" -exec c:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe "search string" '{}' \; -print /usr/bin/find: missing argument to `-exec' c:\cygwin\bin\find.exe . -name "files to search pattern" -exec c:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe "search string" '{}' ; -print <working search results>
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