From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: find-name-dired should not escape the braces in windows environment
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:20:39 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <di678r$grq$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000701c5caf0$68f3ff30$53596c6b@LALITMOHANTRIPATHI>
Lalit Mohan Tripathi wrote:
> ~/Desktop/emacs-21.3/bin/:
> find . \( -name '*.c' \) -exec ls -ld {} \;
> find: paths must precede expression
> Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]
>
> find exited abnormally with code 1 at Fri Oct 07 08:57:32
>
> Please let me know how to fix it at lalit.mohan@samsung.com,
> currently I use batch file in Windows to type the above command
> by replacing \( with ( and then run-it, as an
> alternate way to perform this.
>
> Recent input:
> Used M-x find-name-dired
Set shell-file-name to a shell that understands quoted parentheses.
Note: In American English, "(" and ")" are parentheses, "[" and "]" are
brackets, and "{" and "}" are braces.
--
Kevin Rodgers
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2005-10-07 3:37 find-name-dired should not escape the braces in windows environment Lalit Mohan Tripathi
2005-10-07 16:20 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
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