Re: find-grep-dired on nt emacs

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Leo wrote:

> hi there
> 
> i tried find-grep-dired, but i get an errror in the *Find* buffer:
> 
>         c:/Program Files/Borland/:
>         find . \( -type f -exec grep -q TWebBrowser {} \;  \) -exec ls -ld
> {} ;
>         find: missing argument to `-exec'
> 
> i'm running nt emacs with cygwin and have set my shell-file-name and
> explicit-shell-file-name to "bash".
> 
> in an interactive shell buffer it works when i quote the last semicolon. so
> the correct command is:
> 
>         find . \( -type f -exec grep -q TWebBrowser {} \;  \) -exec ls -ld
> {} \;
> 
> how can i tell find-grep-dired to provide the last backslash???

Check the value of find-ls-option; it should have the trailing semicolon
backslash'ed.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers