Re: How can I run grep-find from an elisp function?

[Pieter van Oostrum <pieter-l@vanoostrum.org>]

BobD <daycandle@gmail.com> writes:

> Using Windows 7
> Emacs 27.1
>
> When I run grep-find, it displays this in the mini-buffer:
>  Q:/Cygwin/bin/find.exe . -type f -name '*' -exec Q:/Cygwin/bin/grep.exe -nH -i "{}" ";"
>
> I insert a search string like this:
>  Q:/Cygwin/bin/find.exe . -type f -name '*' -exec Q:/Cygwin/bin/grep.exe -nH -i blabba "{}" ";"
>
> How can I run grep-find with that from an elisp function?

Probably
(grep-find "Q:/Cygwin/bin/find.exe . -type f -name '*' -exec Q:/Cygwin/bin/grep.exe -nH -i blabba \"{}\" \";\""")

I don't have Windows, so I might have overlooked some Windows peculiarities. The above is translated from how it works on MacOS. Maybe the \" can be replaced by ' and/or \"{}\" by  \\{\\} or '{}'
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