From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 9 15:17:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA03732 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 15:17:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA03723 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 1997 15:17:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberte@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.5/8.8.4) id AAA02312; Fri, 10 Oct 1997 00:17:17 +0200 (MESZ) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199710092217.AAA02312@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: help In-Reply-To: <343D3BBD.AD0A032B@AJC.State.Net> from Al Johnson at "Oct 9, 97 03:17:01 pm" To: Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net (Al Johnson) Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 00:17:17 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: guelph@tpts5.seed.net.tw, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It was Al Johnson who wrote: > Turn the \ to / and things will work much better. > It looks like you introduced a DOSism where it's > best left out. And leave a space after / as in `find / -name filename'. > > -- 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 > -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de