From: Donald H Locker <dhlocker@comcast.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 29680@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29680: another grep-find anomalous behaviour
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 07:35:22 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8b7fa7fd-9693-e2de-4eb8-84bcbbe4f427@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vah7soy3.fsf@gnu.org>
It would appear that quoting of the '*.log' part of the command is at
fault. Changing the line from
-name '*.log'
to
-name \\*.log
allows the find to proceed normally. There are several files with .log
extensions in the directory from which the find-grep fails.
To answer the other comments, televant customisations (all in
(custom-set-variables ...)) are:
;; ignore line-wraps, please, in the following. in my .emacs, each is
;; really all on one line and I haven't figured out all of Thunderbird's
;; options yet
'(explicit-shell-file-name "c:/cygwin64/bin/bash")
'(exec-path
(quote
("C:/cygwin64/bin" "C:/Program Files/Common Files/Microsoft
Shared/Microsoft Online Services" "C:/Program Files (x86)/Common
Files/Microsoft Shared/Microsoft Online Services" "C:/Windows/system32"
"C:/Windows" "C:/Windows/System32/Wbem"
"C:/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/" "C:/Program
Files/Intel/WiFi/bin/" "C:/Program Files/Common
Files/Intel/WirelessCommon/" "C:/Program Files/TortoiseSVN/bin"
"c:/Users/dlocker/AppData/Roaming/local/bin/emacs-24.5-bin-i686-mingw32/libexec/emacs/24.5/i686-pc-mingw32"
"c:/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath")))
'(grep-command "grep -nHE ")
'(grep-find-command (quote ("find . -type f -exec grep -nHE {} \\;" . 32)))
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On 15-Dec-2017 15:42, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 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:[~2017-12-18 12:35 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
2017-12-18 12:35 ` Donald H Locker [this message]
2017-12-18 16:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-18 17:18 ` Donald H Locker
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