bug#4406: 23.1; eshell quoting problem with -exec rm {} \;

[Xah Lee]

this is probably a bug.

when running eshell in Windows, i do

c:\Users\xah\web>find -name "*el" -exec rm {} \;
find -name "*el" -exec rm {} \;
find: missing argument to `-exec'

it turns out, one needs to quote the ending semicolon.

This does not work:
find -name "*el" -exec rm {} \\;

This works:
find -name "*el" -exec rm {} ';'

It appears to me, this seems to be a bug, since
-exec rm {} \;
is a standard idiom in bash, and no reason that shouldn't work.

(Pascal J Bourguignon gave the correct solution. This issue is discussed a 
bit at gnu.emacs.help here
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.help/browse_frm/thread/46eb4e95fcbc1fb9?
 )

 Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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