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Re: eshell & find


From: Peter Lee
Subject: Re: eshell & find
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 21:04:33 GMT
User-agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2

Peter Lee <pete_lee/remove-for-email/@swbell.net> writes:

> The following works fine from both eshell and shell (with shell for me
> being cmd.exe for xp):
> 
> find . -iregex ".*\.cpp"
> 
> 
> However, the following works only with shell and *not* with
> eshell... eshell simply returns.
> 
> find . -iregex ".*\.cpp\|.*\.h"
> 

After more experimentation I tried the following:

find . -iregex ".*\\.cpp\\|.*\\.h"

And that works as expected from eshell... So why do I need to
backlashes to escape from eshell but not a normal shell?




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