Re: counsel-dired-jump error "find: paths must precede expression:"

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Fri, Jan 19, 2018 at 10:47:35AM +0100, Robert Pluim wrote:
> John Magolske <listmail@b79.net> writes:
> 
> > looking into this further, I found a quoted wildcard resolves the issue:
> >
> >     (shell-command-to-string
> >      (concat find-program " -path './*' -type d -not -path '*\/.git*'"))
> >
> > Seems to behave pretty much the same, except that all the directory
> > file-paths displayed in the minibuffer are now preceded with a ./
> 
> What's wrong with using "find ." instead of "find './*'"?

They are at least different: I don't know whether that is relevant here.

With "find .", the start set is the current directory; it would also
find files and subdirs of "." whose name starts with a dot.

With "find ./*", the shell would have a go at expanding ./* into
the list of entries of the current directory: find's start set would
be that list, as expanded by the shell. By default[1], that expansion
excludes entries whose name start with a dot (thus the -not -path ...
up there seems superfluous).

Cheers

[1] But cf "shopt dotglob" for bash, for example. Shells tend to
   vary in this department. Note that the shell expansion of
   ./* can vary even more wildly, cf. bash's "set noglob".
- -- tomás
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