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* find-name-dired issue on Win9x
@ 2004-12-24 19:05 Frank Uepping
  2004-12-26 21:52 ` Kai Grossjohann
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Frank Uepping @ 2004-12-24 19:05 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hello,
I have Emacs-21.3 on Win98 running.

A (find-name-dired "anydir" "anypattern") results in:
=>
  n:/anydir/:
  find . \( -name 'anypattern' \) -exec ls -ld {} \;
  find: paths must precede expression
  Usage: find [path...] [expression]

  find exited abnormally with code 1...

Apparently Emacs has some problem with the path specification, as it can't
process a `.' here.  The same problem happens in the eshell as well, if I
specify `.' as path.

However, find works in the Dos-box as expected, as well as with
(shell-command "find .").  So I think the issue is not with find.exe (from
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/).

Can you help me?

/FAU

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* Re: find-name-dired issue on Win9x
  2004-12-24 19:05 find-name-dired issue on Win9x Frank Uepping
@ 2004-12-26 21:52 ` Kai Grossjohann
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kai Grossjohann @ 2004-12-26 21:52 UTC (permalink / raw)


Frank Uepping <trash@spamgourmet.com> writes:

> A (find-name-dired "anydir" "anypattern") results in:
> =>
>   n:/anydir/:
>   find . \( -name 'anypattern' \) -exec ls -ld {} \;
>   find: paths must precede expression

Perhaps it's the shell that doesn't like \( ... \)?
Which shell are you using?

Kai

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