Re: eshell & find

[Peter Lee <pete_lee/remove-for-email/@swbell.net>]

Peter Lee <pete_lee/remove-for-email/@swbell.net> writes:

> The following works fine from both eshell and shell (with shell for me
> being cmd.exe for xp):
> 
> find . -iregex ".*\.cpp"
> 
> 
> However, the following works only with shell and *not* with
> eshell... eshell simply returns.
> 
> find . -iregex ".*\.cpp\|.*\.h"
> 

After more experimentation I tried the following:

find . -iregex ".*\\.cpp\\|.*\\.h"

And that works as expected from eshell... So why do I need to
backlashes to escape from eshell but not a normal shell?