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

[David Starks-Browning]

On  3 Jan 02, Jason Rumney writes:
> "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'
> 
> It's possible that something you had in your .emacs for 20.4 to make
> Emacs work smoothly with bash is no longer required, since Emacs
> tries to handle bash properly itself.

I would also point out that cygwin-b20 is an *extremely* old version
of Cygwin.  Upgrading Cygwin may not alone solve your problem, but at
least you'll be on the same footing as other Cygwin + Emacs users.

Also, there is help for using the Cygwin bash shell under Emacs in the
Cygwin FAQ at <http://cygwin.com/faq/>, but they would not be
"supported" for such an old version of Cygwin.

Regards,
David
(Cygwin FAQ maintainer)