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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: John Magolske <listmail@b79.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: counsel-dired-jump error "find: paths must precede expression:"
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 10:47:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lggu9o3s.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180119081302.55smxz7fuoon4433@s70206.gridserver.com> (John Magolske's message of "Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:13:02 -0800")

John Magolske <listmail@b79.net> writes:

> looking into this further, I found a quoted wildcard resolves the issue:
>
>     (shell-command-to-string
>      (concat find-program " -path './*' -type d -not -path '*\/.git*'"))
>
> Seems to behave pretty much the same, except that all the directory
> file-paths displayed in the minibuffer are now preceded with a ./

What's wrong with using "find ." instead of "find './*'"?

Robert



  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-19  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-18  2:39 counsel-dired-jump error "find: paths must precede expression:" John Magolske
2018-01-18  6:46 ` Yuri Khan
2018-01-19  8:13   ` John Magolske
2018-01-19  9:47     ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2018-01-19 10:11       ` tomas
2018-01-19 10:07     ` Eli Zaretskii

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