From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Warning to those using rgrep on Mac OS X Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:13:07 +0200 Message-ID: <83ip7zp41o.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87hanjg14w.fsf@dimension8.tehua.net> <871uen4pve.fsf@gmail.com> <83sj73p8mt.fsf@gnu.org> <87r4mndyiw.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1355858029 23037 80.91.229.3 (18 Dec 2012 19:13:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:13:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 18 20:14:04 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tl2c4-0001xe-C4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:14:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45403 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tl2bq-0001ch-Lf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:13:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:50124) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tl2bk-0001cP-GB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:13:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tl2bi-0003uS-L2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:13:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:49826) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tl2bi-0003uJ-CI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:13:38 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MF800J00QE0Q300@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:12:54 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MF800JV2QPHL640@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2012 21:12:54 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87r4mndyiw.fsf@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88202 Archived-At: > From: Thierry Volpiatto > Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:07:51 +0100 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > >> From: Thierry Volpiatto > >> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:27:17 +0100 > >> > >> Emacs for rgrep use, in addition of grep, two more commands that are find > >> and xargs, which is not useful because grep itself is able to recurse > >> without the need of these commands. > >> It is not a problem on GNU/Linux system based, but seems to add > >> portability problems on other systems. > > > > Not exactly due to portability problems, but due to the fact that > > there are so many broken ports of 'find' and 'xargs', at least for > > Windows, out there. > I always heard (from you :-)) a patched version is needed on windows, What do you mean by "patched version"? GNU Find without patches will simply not compile on Windows. > which is inconvenient for most users. ??? My port is available for download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/findutils-4.2.30-4-w32-bin.zip/download (There's a 64-bit build there, too, courtesy of another user.)