From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ?
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:10:00 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7004d8b-7fc8-4e59-864d-35d9a4063854@x25g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6507.1252744061.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Sep 12, 1:27 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:53:15 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > Sorry, i had big typo in the above. This works:
>
> > find . -name "*sch*" -exec echo {} ';'
>
> > Thanks. Still, this probably should probably be considered a bug. Is
> > there some technical reason eshell having problems with the \; ?
>
> Yes, there is: you cannot have \ be an escape character on Windows
> (without some major annoyances), because it serves as a directory
> separator.
I see. thanks.
Xah
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-12 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-11 7:59 eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ? Xah Lee
2009-09-11 12:23 ` Alan Mackenzie
2009-09-11 12:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-09-11 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6446.1252681177.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-11 18:45 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-11 18:53 ` Xah Lee
2009-09-12 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6507.1252744061.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-09-12 17:10 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2009-09-14 9:35 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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