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Re: eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ?


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ?
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:27:37 +0300

> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:53:15 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Sorry, i had big typo in the above. This works:
> 
> find . -name "*sch*" -exec echo {} ';'
> 
> Thanks. Still, this probably should probably be considered a bug. Is
> there some technical reason eshell having problems with the \; ?

Yes, there is: you cannot have \ be an escape character on Windows
(without some major annoyances), because it serves as a directory
separator.




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