Re: [h-e-w] grep-find quoting and nt emacs 21.1

[Michael R. Wolf]

"Christine Burr" <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes, it's the cygwin find, not the windows version. This is sample
> output I've gotten in the *igrep* buffer:
> 
> cd d:/users/cburr/work/BAPI/DLL/S70Server/
> find . -type d \( -name SCCS -o -name RCS \) -prune -o \( -type f -o
> -type l \) -name "*.h" -print0 | xargs -0 -e grep -n   'address'
> /dev/null
> /PROGRA~1/cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin/bash.exe: -c: line 1:
> syntax error near unexpected token `\\('
> /PROGRA~1/cygnus/cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/bin/bash.exe: -c: line 1:
> `find . -type d \\( -name SCCS -o -name RCS \\) -prune -o \\( -type f -o
> -type l \\) -name "*.h" -print0 | xargs -0 -e grep -n   'address'
> /dev/null'
> 
> igrep exited abnormally with code 2 at Thu Jan 03 13:41:57

Looks like good Korn shell syntax.  Since I don't know bash,
I'm taking a SWAG.  Try it without the \ in front of the (.

That's a short-term hack.  Medium- to long-term, that
doesn't feel right to me.  I think that parens are probably
a POSIX syntax for subshell execution, are therefore
metacharacters, and need to be escaped.

It may be the wrong thing to _do_, but it might be
instructive to _try_.

-- 
Michael R. Wolf
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