From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#29680: another grep-find anomalous behaviour Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 18:21:21 +0200 Message-ID: <83r2rsovlq.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8b31cf6a-da03-2e80-459b-021c47def8c6@comcast.net> <9d528dc5-c3a6-e612-9999-5b386571d817@comcast.net> <83zi6krl6p.fsf@gnu.org> <83vah7soy3.fsf@gnu.org> <8b7fa7fd-9693-e2de-4eb8-84bcbbe4f427@comcast.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1513614016 2110 195.159.176.226 (18 Dec 2017 16:20:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:20:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 29680@debbugs.gnu.org To: Donald H Locker Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 18 17:20:11 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eQy9D-0008Pg-Gu for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 17:20:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53230 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eQyBA-0002hv-4q for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:22:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46376) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eQyB3-0002gE-Sj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:22:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eQyAz-0001mX-Ta for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:22:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:60305) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eQyAz-0001mR-P9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:22:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eQyAz-0003Ov-JE for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:22:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:22:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 29680 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: moreinfo Original-Received: via spool by 29680-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B29680.151361408413028 (code B ref 29680); Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:22:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 29680) by debbugs.gnu.org; 18 Dec 2017 16:21:24 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40753 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eQyAO-0003O4-0E for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:21:24 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54255) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eQyAM-0003Nr-Oo for 29680@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:21:22 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eQyAD-0001H4-Gm for 29680@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:21:17 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:39736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eQyAD-0001Gz-E9; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:21:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1311 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1eQyAC-0002mn-QR; Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:21:13 -0500 In-reply-to: <8b7fa7fd-9693-e2de-4eb8-84bcbbe4f427@comcast.net> (message from Donald H Locker on Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:35:22 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:141220 Archived-At: > Cc: 29680@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Donald H Locker > Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:35:22 -0500 > > It would appear that quoting of the '*.log' part of the command is at > fault. Changing the line from > > -name '*.log' > to > > -name \\*.log > > allows the find to proceed normally. There are several files with .log > extensions in the directory from which the find-grep fails. Makes sense. It's probably some subtle snafu with command-line quoting. Were the 'qoutes' typed by you, or did Emacs produce them? In any case, if you can spot where this quoting goes wrong, please tell the details. The combination of a native Windows Emacs and Cygwin shell/utilities is relatively less well tested and has subtleties, so I'm not surprised to hear about such problems.