From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: find-dired problems
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 08:24:27 +0200 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1021212082130.15584J-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uisy0kwbd.fsf@superonline.com>
On 12 Dec 2002, Timur Aydin wrote:
> d:/BCMDEV/:
> find . \( Makefile \) -exec ls -ld {} \;
> find: paths must precede expression
> Usage: find [path...] [expression]
>
> find exited abnormally with code 1 at Thu Dec 12 00:39:28
I'm guessing that the problem is caused by the shell used by Emacs on
your platform when it runs find-dired. The above command that invokes
`find' assumes a Unixy shell, and uses \ to quote special characters. If
Emacs invokes the Windows shell (such as cmd.exe), those backslashes are
left alone and wind up confusing `find' which doesn't expect them.
Try forcing Emacs to invoke the Cygwin port of Bash as the shell, and the
problems might go away.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-12 6:24 UTC|newest]
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2002-12-11 22:47 find-dired problems Timur Aydin
2002-12-12 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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