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Peter Lee <pete_lee/remove-for-email/@swbell.net> writes:

> After more experimentation I tried the following:
>
> find . -iregex ".*\\.cpp\\|.*\\.h"
>
> And that works as expected from eshell... So why do I need to
> backlashes to escape from eshell but not a normal shell?

Because Eshell is basically passing your string on to Lisp, which
needs the double-backslashing.  It's the same behavior expected by
bash.  In this case, cmd.exe is the oddball.

John