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Re: find-dired problems
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: find-dired problems |
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Thu, 12 Dec 2002 08:24:27 +0200 (IST) |
On 12 Dec 2002, Timur Aydin wrote:
> d:/BCMDEV/:
> find . \( Makefile \) -exec ls -ld {} \;
> find: paths must precede expression
> Usage: find [path...] [expression]
>
> find exited abnormally with code 1 at Thu Dec 12 00:39:28
I'm guessing that the problem is caused by the shell used by Emacs on
your platform when it runs find-dired. The above command that invokes
`find' assumes a Unixy shell, and uses \ to quote special characters. If
Emacs invokes the Windows shell (such as cmd.exe), those backslashes are
left alone and wind up confusing `find' which doesn't expect them.
Try forcing Emacs to invoke the Cygwin port of Bash as the shell, and the
problems might go away.
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