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Re: find-name-dired should not escape the braces in windows environment
From: |
Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: |
Re: find-name-dired should not escape the braces in windows environment |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:20:39 -0600 |
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Lalit Mohan Tripathi wrote:
> ~/Desktop/emacs-21.3/bin/:
> find . \( -name '*.c' \) -exec ls -ld {} \;
> find: paths must precede expression
> Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] [path...] [expression]
>
> find exited abnormally with code 1 at Fri Oct 07 08:57:32
>
> Please let me know how to fix it at lalit.mohan@samsung.com,
> currently I use batch file in Windows to type the above command
> by replacing \( with ( and then run-it, as an
> alternate way to perform this.
>
> Recent input:
> Used M-x find-name-dired
Set shell-file-name to a shell that understands quoted parentheses.
Note: In American English, "(" and ")" are parentheses, "[" and "]" are
brackets, and "{" and "}" are braces.
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Kevin Rodgers