From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: shell quoting
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:24:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ulkvkshg7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141853301.042091.314150@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> (sensorflo@gmail.com)
> From: "Florian Kaufmann" <sensorflo@gmail.com>
> Date: 8 Mar 2006 13:28:21 -0800
>
> find . -name '*cpp'
> But then I get
> File not found - '*cpp'
>
> If I omit the ' it doesn't really get better. The answer now is
> FIND: Parameter format not correct
This message comes from find.exe which is part of MS-Windows and is
incompatible with GNU Find. The Windows find.exe is something like
Grep (type "find /?" for more info).
In other words, check your PATH: you are getting the wrong executable.
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2006-03-08 21:28 shell quoting Florian Kaufmann
2006-03-08 21:52 ` Florian Kaufmann
2006-03-08 22:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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