shell quoting

shell quoting

[Florian Kaufmann]

Hello

Can anyone direct me to information how quoting works in
(shell-command) and (shell). I am used to bash. For example I entered,
as I would in bash

find . -name '*cpp'
But then I get
File not found - '*cpp'

If I omit the ' it doesn't really get better. The answer now is
FIND: Parameter format not correct

I have the GNU Emacs Manual 21.2, but coudnt find anything.

Thank you

Florian Kaufmann

Re: shell quoting

[Florian Kaufmann]

I think I found the problem. I am using XEmacs for Windows, and I didnt
set the SHELL environment variable to bash from my cywgin environment.

Re: shell quoting

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Florian Kaufmann" <sensorflo@gmail.com>
> Date: 8 Mar 2006 13:28:21 -0800
> 
> find . -name '*cpp'
> But then I get
> File not found - '*cpp'
> 
> If I omit the ' it doesn't really get better. The answer now is
> FIND: Parameter format not correct

This message comes from find.exe which is part of MS-Windows and is
incompatible with GNU Find.  The Windows find.exe is something like
Grep (type "find /?" for more info).

In other words, check your PATH: you are getting the wrong executable.

Re: shell quoting

[bhenz]

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I would normally issue the command as...

find . -name \*cpp

... as for your actual question about how it works... I just stumble 
through with a combination of "", {}, '', and \. 

But I realize that's probably not the most effective method.    :-(

Bob





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Hello

Can anyone direct me to information how quoting works in
(shell-command) and (shell). I am used to bash. For example I entered,
as I would in bash

find . -name '*cpp'
But then I get
File not found - '*cpp'

If I omit the ' it doesn't really get better. The answer now is
FIND: Parameter format not correct

I have the GNU Emacs Manual 21.2, but coudnt find anything.

Thank you

Florian Kaufmann

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