From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Donald H Locker <dhlocker@comcast.net>
Cc: 29680@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29680: another grep-find anomalous behaviour
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 22:42:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vah7soy3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed18665b-4bbb-dddd-8764-bc00c4df306c@comcast.net> (message from Donald H Locker on Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:46:32 -0500)
> Cc: 29680@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Donald H Locker <dhlocker@comcast.net>
> Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 13:46:32 -0500
>
> The underlying "unixy" environment is cygwin; updated a few weeks ago.
What customizations do you have to go with that setup? Any
customizations of shell-file-name or similar variables?
> The behaviour is very repeatable, though - at one level in the directory
> hierarchy, the command fails to even execute find; at one higher level
> in the directory hierarchy, the command succeeds and finds the sought
> strings in the file.
It's hard to reason about your case without knowing which files are
present in each directory. Would you mind to concoct a small test
case, where all directories and files in the tree to be searched by
'find' are explicitly spelled out?
> Note that in the Model_withEVSE directory, "find ." doesn't seem to
> think that '.' is a directory
I think your interpretation of the error message is mistaken. It says
"paths must precede expression", but that's because somehow '*.log' is
expanded into more than a single argument. I suspect that the command
works in a directory with no files whose names match *.log, and
doesn't work where there are such files. So I'd suggest to continue
looking into the quoting issue. One possibility is to replace 'find'
with a program or a batch file which will just echo its command-line
arguments, and then see how Emacs invokes it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-15 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 20:36 bug#29680: 24.5; find-grep not finding a file or missing the grep Donald H Locker
2017-12-15 12:25 ` bug#29680: another grep-find anomalous behaviour Donald H Locker
2017-12-15 16:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-15 16:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-15 18:46 ` Donald H Locker
2017-12-15 20:42 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-12-18 12:35 ` Donald H Locker
2017-12-18 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-18 17:18 ` Donald H Locker
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