Re: Can't stop find-grep-dired when using Cygwin for the inferior process

[Jason Rumney]

Lennart Borgman wrote:
> There seem to be another bug on w32 too. I just tried using CMD.EXE 
> for the inferior process instead. That does not seem to work at all. I 
> got this:
>
>  d:/ecvs/:
>  find . \( -type f -exec grep -q -e "message" {} \;  \) -exec ls -ld 
> {} \;
>  find: missing argument to `-exec'
That is because you are using sh escape syntax in cmd.exe. Removing the 
backslash characters works in general, because the characters they are 
escaping do not have special meaning in cmd.exe. For those characters 
that do have special meaning, I think doubling them escapes them in cmd.exe