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From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
To: 71078@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#71078: rgrep accepts wildcard, then throws it away
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 19:48:53 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877cfowvoa.5.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)

When rgrep asks for the Base directory, and the user gives a wildcard,
Base directory: /usr/share/doc/exim4*
it is thrown away, and this instead gets run:
(rgrep "minimaldns" "* .*" "/usr/share/doc/exim4")

In fact this is a very special case, as there happens to be a directory
with just that name,

/usr/share/doc:
  wildcard exim4*
  drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 04-13 07:09 exim4-daemon-light
  drwxr-xr-x 3 4096 04-13 07:09 exim4-base
  drwxr-xr-x 3 4096 04-13 07:09 exim4-config
  drwxr-xr-x 2 4096 2023-11-07  exim4-doc-info
  drwxr-xr-x 3 4096 2023-11-07  exim4-doc-html
  lrwxrwxrwx 1   10 2016-12-08  exim4 -> exim4-base

Normally rgrep won't let the user even proceed if e.g., the user just gave
Base directory: /usr/share/doc/exi*
but in the case where there is in fact a directory that matches exim4,
the "*" gets thrown away!

In fact if we do add the * here,
(rgrep "minimaldns" "* .*" "/usr/share/doc/exim4*")
and do ^X^E, we end up searching ~/ !

emacs-version "29.3"





             reply	other threads:[~2024-05-20 11:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-20 11:48 Dan Jacobson [this message]
2024-05-20 17:26 ` bug#71078: rgrep accepts wildcard, then throws it away Stefan Kangas
2024-05-21 15:30   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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