find-grep-dired on nt emacs

find-grep-dired on nt emacs

[Leo]

hi there

i tried find-grep-dired, but i get an errror in the *Find* buffer:

        c:/Program Files/Borland/:
        find . \( -type f -exec grep -q TWebBrowser {} \;  \) -exec ls -ld
{} ;
        find: missing argument to `-exec'

i'm running nt emacs with cygwin and have set my shell-file-name and
explicit-shell-file-name to "bash".

in an interactive shell buffer it works when i quote the last semicolon. so
the correct command is:

        find . \( -type f -exec grep -q TWebBrowser {} \;  \) -exec ls -ld
{} \;

how can i tell find-grep-dired to provide the last backslash???

thanks, leo

Re: find-grep-dired on nt emacs

[Kevin Rodgers]

Leo wrote:

> hi there
> 
> i tried find-grep-dired, but i get an errror in the *Find* buffer:
> 
>         c:/Program Files/Borland/:
>         find . \( -type f -exec grep -q TWebBrowser {} \;  \) -exec ls -ld
> {} ;
>         find: missing argument to `-exec'
> 
> i'm running nt emacs with cygwin and have set my shell-file-name and
> explicit-shell-file-name to "bash".
> 
> in an interactive shell buffer it works when i quote the last semicolon. so
> the correct command is:
> 
>         find . \( -type f -exec grep -q TWebBrowser {} \;  \) -exec ls -ld
> {} \;
> 
> how can i tell find-grep-dired to provide the last backslash???

Check the value of find-ls-option; it should have the trailing semicolon
backslash'ed.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: find-grep-dired on nt emacs

[Leo]

sorry, couldn't find the var find-ls-option.i'm running gnu emacs 21.3.1.

any other var to customize find-grep-dired?

cheers, leo

"Kevin Rodgers" <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Leo wrote:
>
> > hi there
> >
> > i tried find-grep-dired, but i get an errror in the *Find* buffer:
> >
> >         c:/Program Files/Borland/:
> >         find . \( -type f -exec grep -q TWebBrowser {} \;  \) -exec
ls -ld
> > {} ;
> >         find: missing argument to `-exec'
> >
> > i'm running nt emacs with cygwin and have set my shell-file-name and
> > explicit-shell-file-name to "bash".
> >
> > in an interactive shell buffer it works when i quote the last semicolon.
so
> > the correct command is:
> >
> >         find . \( -type f -exec grep -q TWebBrowser {} \;  \) -exec
ls -ld
> > {} \;
> >
> > how can i tell find-grep-dired to provide the last backslash???
>
> Check the value of find-ls-option; it should have the trailing semicolon
> backslash'ed.
>
> --
> Kevin Rodgers
>

Re: find-grep-dired on nt emacs

[Kevin Rodgers]

[Please don't top-post]

Leo wrote:

> sorry, couldn't find the var find-ls-option.i'm running gnu emacs 21.3.1.
> 
> any other var to customize find-grep-dired?

That's odd.  I searched for "ls -ld" in the 21.3 sources and found this
in lisp/find-dired.el:

(defcustom find-ls-option
   (if (eq system-type 'berkeley-unix) '("-ls" . "-gilsb")
     '("-exec ls -ld {} \\;" . "-ld"))
   "*Description of the option to `find' to produce an `ls -l'-type listing.
This is a cons of two strings (FIND-OPTION . LS-SWITCHES).  FIND-OPTION
gives the option (or options) to `find' that produce the desired output.
LS-SWITCHES is a list of `ls' switches to tell dired how to parse the output."
   :type '(cons (string :tag "Find Option")
	       (string :tag "Ls Switches"))
   :group 'find-dired)

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: find-grep-dired on nt emacs

[Leo]

well, i found it too. and i could change the option via customize.

but stilll, in help-apropos no variable like find-ls-option is shown.

anyway, now i could tweak the setting and find-grep-dired works like a
beauty! :-)))

thanks, leo

"Kevin Rodgers" <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> [Please don't top-post]
>
> Leo wrote:
>
> > sorry, couldn't find the var find-ls-option.i'm running gnu emacs
21.3.1.
> >
> > any other var to customize find-grep-dired?
>
> That's odd.  I searched for "ls -ld" in the 21.3 sources and found this
> in lisp/find-dired.el:
>
> (defcustom find-ls-option
>    (if (eq system-type 'berkeley-unix) '("-ls" . "-gilsb")
>      '("-exec ls -ld {} \\;" . "-ld"))
>    "*Description of the option to `find' to produce an `ls -l'-type
listing.
> This is a cons of two strings (FIND-OPTION . LS-SWITCHES).  FIND-OPTION
> gives the option (or options) to `find' that produce the desired output.
> LS-SWITCHES is a list of `ls' switches to tell dired how to parse the
output."
>    :type '(cons (string :tag "Find Option")
>        (string :tag "Ls Switches"))
>    :group 'find-dired)
>
> --
> Kevin Rodgers
>