On Apr 8, 2005 10:10 AM, Jeff Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For Cygwin find: > - these are valid: > find c:/ -name "AUTOEXEC.BAT" > find c:/. -name "AUTOEXEC.BAT" > find c:\. -name "AUTOEXEC.BAT" > > - this is not valid: > find c:\ -name "AUTOEXEC.BAT" > > Notice using the c:\ requires the period for the current directory, where > c:/ does not. >
Using c:\. with period would be undefined escape sequence. In essence, bash would drop the backslash and you would simply be using just c:. . You have to escape backslashes in *nix which would include cygwin. Should be using c:\\ if you wish to use backslashes. Try these commands on cygwin and notice the similarities and differences: # ls c:\. # ls c:. # ls c:/. # ls c:/ # ls c:\\
