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Re: Bug in find (?)
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: Bug in find (?) |
Date: |
Mon, 05 Aug 2002 13:24:53 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.3.50 (ia64-suse-linux) |
address@hidden writes:
|> Dear Sirs,
|>
|> I'am using the really comfortable find utility (find version 4.1 on AIX 4.3
or
|> find version 4.17 on Win XP (cygwin)).
|>
|> I would like to produce a list of directories for a makefile:
|>
|> /home/gnu/bin/find . -name "*.c" -printf "%h \\\n"
|>
|> But either the line continuation '\\' or the newline '\n' is not recognized.
You are passing the string '%h \n' to -printf. What you probably want is
$ /home/gnu/bin/find . -name "*.c" -printf '%h \\\n'
Andreas.
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