Re: What's the problem with find?

2004-05-07 Thread Alvyn Liang
Sorry, I just wanna know why I used 'find' several days before and it worked fine (without any error message). After something unclear happened, cygdrive appear to my root. And I don't know if it is related, find any file from the root up always encounter the error of saying find: /cygdrive/c/Doc

Re: What's the problem with find?

2004-05-07 Thread Larry Hall
At 06:09 PM 5/7/2004, you wrote: >Maybe I shall rephrase this. >If 'find' command keep looking for files in cygdrive it will always screw up when it >encounter directories that it doesn't have >access. > >- Original Message - >> If 'find' command keep looking for files in cygdrive it will

Re: What's the problem with find?

2004-05-07 Thread Alvyn Liang
Maybe I shall rephrase this. If 'find' command keep looking for files in cygdrive it will always screw up when it encounter directories that it doesn't have access. - Original Message - > If 'find' command keep looking for files in cygdrive it will always screw up when it > encounter di

Re: What's the problem with find?

2004-05-07 Thread Alvyn Liang
After I re-examine my root path I found there is something different in my /. When I type ls I get drwx--+ 4 mcdikcl2 None0 Apr 20 13:50 bin dr-xr-xr-x7 00 0 Jan 1 1970 cygdrive drwx--+ 26 mcdikcl2 None0 Apr 7 13:46 etc -rw-r--r--

Re: What's the problem with find?

2004-05-07 Thread Shankar Unni
Alvyn Liang wrote: $ find / -name 'inline*' find: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Administrator: No such file or directory There's nothing wrong here. It's just that you don't have permission to open the Administrator home directory. On Windows, sometimes you'll see the "no such file or direc