Re: find-dired does not work on emacs24 + win + mingw

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:26:10 +0800
> From: sthfrnth <sthfrnth@gmail.com>
> 
> My env. is Window 7 64bit + MinGW.
> I find that find-dired of emacs24 does not work on this env. (I got emacs24
> from http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/**emacs/windows/<http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/>
> )

And where did you get the port of GNU Find?

> The output of find-dired is like below:
> 
> *  c:/emacs/lisp/:*
> *  find . "(" -name "*find-dired*" ")" -ls*
> *  227084    7 -rw-r--r--   1 sthfrnth Administrators    12792 Jan  19:38 find-dired.el*
> *  956351    6 -rw-r--r--   1 sthfrnth Administrators    11411 Jan  05:35 find-dired.el.ok*
> *  227085    5 -rw-r--r--   1 sthfrnth Administrators     8669 Jan  19:38 find-dired.elc*
> *  3731074    4 -rw-r--r--   1 sthfrnth Administrators     7530 Jan  13:35 find-dired.elc.ok*
> *  *
> *  find finished at Fri Jan 27 13:09:23*

This output is wrong: it doesn't show the date after the month, only
the hour.  "Jan  13:35" etc. is not a valid date-time format.

With the port of GNU Findutils I have, I don't see that problem.

> When enter pressed on file line, it prompted "Unrecognized line!  Check
> directory-listing-before-filename-regexp".

With my find.exe, this error doesn't happen.  I'm quite sure you see
the error message because of the invalid date format.

> I replaced find-dired.el with emacs23's version, it works ok. The output is
> like below:
> 
> *  c:/emacs/lisp/:*
> *  find . "(" -name "*find-dired*" ")" -exec ls -ld "{}" ";"*
> *  -rw-r--r--   1 sthfrnth Administrators    11411 Jan 11 05:35 find-dired.el*

As you see, Emacs 23 instructed find.exe to invoke ls, instead of
using the built-in -ls option.  Your ls.exe produces valid date
format, so the command works.

> I think the output of "*find . "(" -name "*find-dired*" ")" -ls*" is not
> matching some parsing functions in find-dired.el.
> I tried to modify it but did not succeed.
> 
> Can anyone fix this?

See above: you need to "fix" your Findutils.  E.g., try this port:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/findutils-4.2.30-w32-bin.zip/download