From: Donald H Locker <dhlocker@comcast.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 29680@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29680: another grep-find anomalous behaviour
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:46:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed18665b-4bbb-dddd-8764-bc00c4df306c@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zi6krl6p.fsf@gnu.org>
Thank you, Eli.
The underlying "unixy" environment is cygwin; updated a few weeks ago.
(Windows command tools are junk.)
The behaviour is very repeatable, though - at one level in the directory
hierarchy, the command fails to even execute find; at one higher level
in the directory hierarchy, the command succeeds and finds the sought
strings in the file. Note that in the Model_withEVSE directory, "find ."
doesn't seem to think that '.' is a directory, while it is perfectly
happy when started in the directory above that. (word wrap seems to have
made those lines hard to see clearly.)
I'll see if I can drag myself away from Emacs-24.
Donald.
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On 15-Dec-2017 11:49, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Donald H Locker <dhlocker@comcast.net>
>> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 07:25:33 -0500
>>
>> -*- mode: grep; default-directory:
>> "c:/workingSVN/2017-08-21-xxxxx-v2g-test-model/Model_withEVSE/" -*-
>> Grep started at Fri Dec 15 07:12:23
>>
>> find . -type f -name '*.log' -exec grep -nHE 'CurrentDemand' {} \;
>> /usr/bin/find: paths must precede expression
>> Usage: /usr/bin/find [path...] [expression]
>>
>> Grep exited abnormally with code 1 at Fri Dec 15 07:12:23
>
> Do you have the sub-shell customized to invoke a Unixy shell or
> something? Windows shells don't support quoting 'like this', so you
> need to use "*.log" instead. And, depending on which port of GNU
> Findutils you have installed, even "*.log" could get expanded, even
> though it's quoted, because Windows Vista changed its interpretation
> of quoting wrt previous versions of Windows.
>
> Also, I wonder how come Emacs doesn't propose to the the command with
> "+" as it did for me.
>
> FWIW, your command (with a different search string) works for me, but
> it isn't surprising, since in your case it sometimes works and
> sometimes doesn't.
>
>> GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
>
> Emacs 24 is quite old. Could you try the latest pretest of Emacs 26,
> please?
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-15 18:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 20:36 bug#29680: 24.5; find-grep not finding a file or missing the grep Donald H Locker
2017-12-15 12:25 ` bug#29680: another grep-find anomalous behaviour Donald H Locker
2017-12-15 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-15 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-15 18:46 ` Donald H Locker [this message]
2017-12-15 20:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-18 12:35 ` Donald H Locker
2017-12-18 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-18 17:18 ` Donald H Locker
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