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From: "Leo" <leo.broska@NOSPAM.isys.com.au>
Subject: Re: find-grep-dired on nt emacs
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:57:42 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bjm0dt$1446$1@otis.netspace.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3F5E083B.6090306@yahoo.com

sorry, couldn't find the var find-ls-option.i'm running gnu emacs 21.3.1.

any other var to customize find-grep-dired?

cheers, leo

"Kevin Rodgers" <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:3F5E083B.6090306@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
>

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-10  1:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-09  6:24 find-grep-dired on nt emacs Leo
2003-09-09 17:04 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-09-10  1:57   ` Leo [this message]
2003-09-10 22:44     ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-09-11  4:31       ` Leo

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