From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ?
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:27:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837hw41sau.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ef10869c-5e92-4cb3-b4a7-cefa1d323f05@v37g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:53:15 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Sorry, i had big typo in the above. This works:
>
> find . -name "*sch*" -exec echo {} ';'
>
> Thanks. Still, this probably should probably be considered a bug. Is
> there some technical reason eshell having problems with the \; ?
Yes, there is: you cannot have \ be an escape character on Windows
(without some major annoyances), because it serves as a directory
separator.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-12 8:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-11 7:59 eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ? Xah Lee
2009-09-11 12:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-09-11 12:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-09-11 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6446.1252681177.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-11 18:45 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-11 18:53 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-12 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.6507.1252744061.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-12 17:10 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-14 9:35 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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