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rgrep is broken on woe32

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 7785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#7785: rgrep is broken on woe32
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 23:05:20 +0200

> Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 15:55:40 -0500
> From: Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 7785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> > What happens if you repeat this experiment, but this time give an
> > explicit absolute file name for each program, find, xargs, and grep?
> > (I'd like to be sure we know what binaries are involved.)  To avoid
> > hassles with quoting, please use backslashes in the file names.
> 
> when I apply my w32-fns patch, I see this:
> 
> -*- mode: grep; default-directory: "~/" -*-
> Grep started at Thu Jan 06 15:46:06
> 
> c:\gnu\gnuwin32\bin\find . "(" -path  -o -path......o -name "*.tps" -o
> -name "*.vrs" -o -name "*.pyc" -o -name "*.pyo" ")" -prune -o  -type f
> "(" -iname "*.[cdfh]" -o -iname "*.lisp" -o -iname "*.tst" -o -iname
> "*.m4" -o -iname "*.in" -o -iname "Makefile*" -o -iname "*.xml" ")"
> -print0 | c:\gnu\gnuwin32\bin\xargs -0 -e c:\gnu\gnuwin32\bin\grep -i
> -nH "asdf"
> c:\gnu\gnuwin32\bin\xargs: c:\gnu\gnuwin32\bin\grep: Invalid argument
> 
> Grep finished (matches found) at Thu Jan 06 15:46:09

And if you try the same command from the cmd prompt outside Emacs?

Also, what does "c:\gnu\gnuwin32\bin\xargs --version" say?

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