find-dired problems

find-dired problems

[Timur Aydin]

Hi,

I'm having trouble getting "find-dired" to behave correctly.

Here is what I do:

1) I open a directory using dired
2) I do M-x find-dired, accept the directory offered and specify
   Makefile as the file to find.

Here is what emacs comes back with:

  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 tried using find-name-dired and find-grep-dired. All of them give
errors:

find-name-dired, directory is d:/BCMDEV, pattern is Mak*

  d:/BCMDEV/:
  find . \( -name 'Mak*' \) -exec ls -ld {} \;
  find: missing argument to `-exec'
  
  find exited abnormally with code 1 at Thu Dec 12 00:45:04

find-grep-dired, directory is d:/BCMDEV, pattern is ALIGN

  d:/BCMDEV/:
  find . \( -type f -exec grep -q ALIGN {} \;  \) -exec ls -ld {} \;
  find: missing argument to `-exec'
  
  find exited abnormally with code 1 at Thu Dec 12 00:46:35

What am I doing wrong?

I am using emacs 21.2 on W2000 and Cygwin is installed on this
system. Cygwin is located in c:\cygwin and:

HOMEDRIVE=C:
HOMEPATH=\cygwin\home\tayd.

--
Timur.

Re: find-dired problems

[Eli Zaretskii]

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.