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25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for platforms not having those tools

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Message #34 received at 23451 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
To: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: 23451 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#23451: 25.0.93; Clarify the dependency on find/grep for
 platforms not having those tools
Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 00:44:46 +0300

On 5/29/17 3:43 PM, npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net wrote:

> This seems to work:
> 
>      find ... -exec sh -c 'grep -i -E -nH -e turn-on-eldoc-mode "$@" ; [ $? -le 1 ]' sh '{}' +

Thank you for the attempt, but maybe I was asking too much. Seems like 
we can't rely on sh being available on all supported platforms.

I'm inclined to go with a regexp-based approach for now. "program not 
found" errors rarely look like Grep output.

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