Re: Can't stop find-grep-dired when using Cygwin for the inferior process - bug in shell-quote-argument?

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> In any case the command string that is built and send to CMD does not 
> work. Here I am using the GnuWin32 port of find, version 4.2.20. Find 
> complains about the first -exec:
>
>    find . \( -type f -exec grep -q -e "message" {} \;  \) -exec ls -ld 
> {} \;
>    find: missing argument to `-exec'
>
> Stepping through shell-quote-argument it I can see that it tales the 
> 'windows-nt path so that should be ok. There is only one call to 
> shell-quote-argument involved and that is from find-grep-dired. 
>
> How should the above command look in this case? I am not very familiar 
> with find. Perhaps is it not possible to give this command with CMD.EXE?

I haven't tried it myself, but I think the following will work with 
cmd.exe and a native port of GNU find:

find . ( -type f -exec grep -q -e "message" {} ; ) -exec ls -ld {} ;

The problem appears to be that although the string to pass to grep is 
passed to shell-quote-argument, other parts of the expression have 
hard-coded backslashes. However, passing them to shell-quote-argument 
will introduce extra double-quotes on Windows, and I am not sure whether 
that will work or not.