GNU bug report logs - #6665
24.0.50; rgrep does not work on Windows

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Christoph <cschol2112 <at> googlemail.com>

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: "Colin Fraizer" <colin <at> cfraizer.com>
Cc: 6665 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6665: rgrep does not work on Windows
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 14:09:33 +0100

"Colin Fraizer" <colin <at> cfraizer.com> writes:

> find . "(" -path "*/SCCS" [...] ")" -prune -o "(" -name ".#*" [...] ")"
> -prune -o -type f "(" -iname "*.el" ")" -exec grep -nH "mystring" {} ";"
>
> That second "-prune" is really bogus.  It is supposed to mean "don't descend
> into
> the matched file as a directory", but it's not matching directories.
> It is matching regular filenames.

It can match directories as well, just like the first expression can
match non-directories.

Andreas.

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