* eshell & find
@ 2003-03-06 21:01 Peter Lee
2003-03-06 21:04 ` Peter Lee
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From: Peter Lee @ 2003-03-06 21:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
The following works fine from both eshell and shell (with shell for me
being cmd.exe for xp):
find . -iregex ".*\.cpp"
However, the following works only with shell and *not* with
eshell... eshell simply returns.
find . -iregex ".*\.cpp\|.*\.h"
Any ideas why this wouldn't work in eshell ?
Thanks.
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* Re: eshell & find
2003-03-06 21:01 eshell & find Peter Lee
@ 2003-03-06 21:04 ` Peter Lee
2003-03-06 21:21 ` John Wiegley
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From: Peter Lee @ 2003-03-06 21:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
Peter Lee <pete_lee/remove-for-email/@swbell.net> writes:
> The following works fine from both eshell and shell (with shell for me
> being cmd.exe for xp):
>
> find . -iregex ".*\.cpp"
>
>
> However, the following works only with shell and *not* with
> eshell... eshell simply returns.
>
> find . -iregex ".*\.cpp\|.*\.h"
>
After more experimentation I tried the following:
find . -iregex ".*\\.cpp\\|.*\\.h"
And that works as expected from eshell... So why do I need to
backlashes to escape from eshell but not a normal shell?
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* Re: eshell & find
2003-03-06 21:04 ` Peter Lee
@ 2003-03-06 21:21 ` John Wiegley
2003-03-06 21:47 ` Peter Lee
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: John Wiegley @ 2003-03-06 21:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
Peter Lee <pete_lee/remove-for-email/@swbell.net> writes:
> After more experimentation I tried the following:
>
> find . -iregex ".*\\.cpp\\|.*\\.h"
>
> And that works as expected from eshell... So why do I need to
> backlashes to escape from eshell but not a normal shell?
Because Eshell is basically passing your string on to Lisp, which
needs the double-backslashing. It's the same behavior expected by
bash. In this case, cmd.exe is the oddball.
John
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