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
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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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