I'm trying to use find command from FindUtils package from gnuwin32 with Windows 7 standard cmd.exe shell.
But when I type simplest possible command involving pattern matching, it doesn't work right.
If I type:
find . -name "*.java"
I end up with: paths must precede expression error. Here I found folowing explanation:
The -name test takes only one argument. In your command line, the shell is expanding the s into more than one argument before the find command is run. Therefore you get the error you see. You should either escape any shell metacharacters in the -name argument or enclose that argument in quotes.
But I am enclosing that argument in quotes!
I tried also with single quotes:
find . -name '*.java'
In this case no files are found (there are plenty of .java files in directory, but I checked '*' for sure, with the same effect).
I also tried:
find . -name \*.java
With the same effect as for double quotes. The same for:
find . -name "\*.java"
What am I doing wrong? In example I found, using double quotes with star worked well.
I think it may be related with this question.
Similar questions here and there. Seems to be related to GNUWin32's find.exe behaving different on Windows Vista and Windows 7 but not Windows XP.