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

[Kim F. Storm]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

>> find . ( -type f -exec grep -q -e "message" {} ; ) -exec ls -ld {} ;
>
> Thanks, that expression works with the GnuWin32 port of GNU find and
> CMD.exe.
>
> To remove the bugs I suggest the following approach:
>
> 1) A new function quote-special-characters that will quote characters
> like (); if it is a unix style shell.
>
> 2) A new function w32-shell-is-unix-style that looks at shell-file-name.
>
> 3) A new variable w32-unix-style-shells that have a list of regexps
> for the function in 2 to use for matching shell-file-name
>
> 4) Use 2 in 1 and in shell-quote-argument
>
> How about this approach?

Those are details ...  the problem is shell-quote-argument which
obviously has bugs on w32 for some types of shell.  Someone who
understands the issue should fix this.

I have fixed find-dired and find-grep-dired to properly use
shell-quote-argument on all special arguments, i.e. ( ) {} and ;.

So once shell-quote-argument is fixed, find-dired commands should
be fixed too.

> BTW the doc string for find-grep-dired is incorrect in several ways.

Can you propose a better doc string.

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk