From: "md3bs" <d.e.1.mayfield@herts.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: multiple find and replace on windows using (gnu) find
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 13:33:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ego15c$igg$1@helios.herts.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vqzmc1l6j0.fsf@nospam.net
Thanks Martin,
I've tried this but I ran into problems.
find . /( -name "*html" /) -exec ls -ld {} /;
-c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `//('
-c: line 1: `gnufind.exe . //( -name "*html" //) -exec ls -ld {} //;'
The problem lies with the ls command handling spaces in file names ( see
following tests ).
find . -maxdepth 1 \( -name "*html" \)
.\test with space.html
.\test.html
gnufind . -maxdepth 1 \( -name "*html" \) -exec ls ld {} \;
ls: ld: No such file or directory
ls: .\test: No such file or directory
ls: with: No such file or directory
ls: space.html: No such file or directory
ls: ld: No such file or directory
.\test.html
gnufind . -maxdepth 1 \( -name "*html" \) -exec echo {} \;
.\test with space.html
.\test.html
"martin" <nospam@nospam.net> wrote in message
news:vqzmc1l6j0.fsf@nospam.net...
>
>>>>>> md3bs <d.e.1.mayfield@herts.ac.uk> writes:
> > Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:59:53 +0100
> >
> > find-dired does not work because I have filenames with spaces in
> > them.
> >
> > it does work when I use it on Linux
>
> Hi,
>
> works for me on w2k with cygwin.
>
> find-dired executes the command
> find . \( -iname '* *' \) -exec ls -ld {} \;.
>
> > How can I do multiple find and replace on windows. This should be a
> > common task. I can't seem to find any suggestions on the web.
>
> Mark the files you found by find-dired in the *Find* buffer and apply
> dired-do-rename-regexp (% R).
>
> Martin
> --
> parozusa at web dot de
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-13 12:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-12 14:59 multiple find and replace on windows using (gnu) find md3bs
2006-10-12 18:42 ` martin
2006-10-13 12:33 ` md3bs [this message]
2006-10-13 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
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