Re: Bug in find (?)

[Andreas Schwab]

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|> 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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