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Turn the \ to / and things will work much better.
It looks like you introduced a DOSism where it's
best left out.

 -- Al

Gordon Wang wrote:
> 
> Dear Sir
> I am a freebsd 2.2.1 user.
> When I use 'find \-name filename' to search a  file.
> I got :
>         open :: illegal option --n
>         open :: illegal option --a
>         open :: illegal option --m
>         open :: illegal option --e
> 
> Why?
> 
> Please help me
> Thanks
> 
> Gordon