Re: [h-e-w] Searching on Windows (find, grep, and indexed search)

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Scott Jaderholm wrote:
> Lennart,
>
> Thanks for the reply
>
> On 9/28/07, Lennart Borgman (gmail) <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Scott Jaderholm wrote:
> > > Search:
> > > 1 - directory for file named "string"
> > Just to answer you I tried it (I am actually not using find-dired myself):
> >
> >    M-x find-dired
> >    Run find in directory: YOUR-DIR
> >    Run find (with args): -name YOUR-FILE
> >
> > It worked for me - so I learned something ;-)
>
> I get this result:
>
>   c:/Scott/:
>   find . "(" -name test ")" -exec ls -ld "{}" ";"
>   Access denied - .
>   File not found - -NAME
>   File not found - TEST
...
>   find exited abnormally with code 1 at Fri Sep 28 15:44:36

This output is from the Windows find.exe program, not the gnuwin32 port 
of the unix find program.

So there must be some problem with the path. I wonder if I have made a 
mistake there. Could you please do

  F1 v
  Describe variable: w32shell-shell

and tell me the value of that variable?

I thought the default value was 'cmd but it seems to be nil. Can you set 
the value through Custom:

   M-x customize-variable

   Click on "Value Menu" and choose cmd.exe.
   Then either click on either "set for current session" or
   "save for future sessions".

Then true M-x find-dired again.

> > > 2 - directory for file containing "string"
> > Try lgrep or rgrep:
> >
> >    M-x lgrep
> >    Search for (default "bla"): YOUR-STRING
>
> That works for me, but I get the following error 16 times in
> *Compile-Log* when I type M-x lgrepRET:
> Warning: `error' called with 1 args to fill 0 format field(s)

Sorry, I do not understand. Please try to explain again.

> Thank you,
> Scott