Re: running gnu-win32 tools under another Unix-ported shell?

["Earnie Boyd" <earnie_boyd at hotmail dot com>]

Don't know if this will help; but, try using the double quote instead of 
the single quote.  ie: find . -name "*.cpp" -perm 222 -ls


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>To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
>Subject: running gnu-win32 tools under another Unix-ported shell?
>Reply-to: sab@seanet.com
>From: Scott Blachowicz <sab@seanet.com>
>Date: 08 Jan 1998 10:45:56 -0800
>
>Hi-
>
>I'm sometimes using a port of zsh (not the one built with the cygwin
>toolkit) and when I run the cygwin 'find' command, for instance, it 
acts
>as if the 'find' command (in its crt0 or whatever?) is expanding globs
>that it gets.  I don't want that to happen because my shell is already
>doing that.  So, if I do this:
>
>    find . -name '*.cpp' -perm +222 -ls
>
>to find writeable .cpp files, I get this error:
>
>    /usr/bin/find.EXE: paths must precede expression
>    Usage: /usr/bin/find.EXE [path...] [expression]
>
>How do the cygwin commands detect their parent & avoid the globbing 
stuff
>when necessary if using the normal cygwin bash, for instance?  Any
>suggestions?
>-- 
>Scott Blachowicz                <sab@seanet.com>
>
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