From: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
Subject: Re: find-grep and complicated patterns
Date: 13 Dec 2006 08:32:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k60we25s.fsf@w2kpicasso.cante.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ulklce857.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:35:07 +0100
> > From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
> >
> > find . -name "*.el" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -e grep -nH -e "aaa bbb"
> >
> > where there is a space in the pattern? The above does NOT work! Is this
> > platform dependent? (On w32 you may use Cygwin or Gnuwin32+cmd.exe here.)
>
> I suspect that this is a bug in the Windows port of xargs: when it
> invokes Grep, the quotes are already stripped, and it fails to quote
> them again.
cmdproxy may treat them differently. At least:
dos> echo foo | something
====
is treated like
"foo "
If there is no extra space before pipe(|) character:
dos> echo foo|something
then it's treated like:
"foo"
Jari
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-13 6:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-13 2:35 find-grep and complicated patterns Lennart Borgman
2006-12-13 3:07 ` Miles Bader
2006-12-13 4:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-12-13 6:32 ` Jari Aalto [this message]
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