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From:	"Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>
To:	"'Simon Heffer'" <Simon DOT Heffer AT royalblue DOT com>,
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Subject:	RE: Another find missing arg to -exec prob..
Date:	Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:10:35 -0400
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> From: Simon Heffer [mailto:Simon DOT Heffer AT royalblue DOT com]
> Subject: Another find missing arg to -exec prob..
> I'm trying to run this from EMACSNT and getting the missing 
> argument to -exec message...
> 
> f:\cygwin\bin\find . -name *.c -exec grep -n -e blah {} \dev\null \;

 I suggest you use bash as your emacs shell.  See
the NTemacs FAQ for instructions.
 Use
    -name "*.c"
 instead of
    -name *.c
 to make sure the wild-card is not expanded in the current directory.

 "find" is a cygwin program so use  /dev/null  instead of \dev\null

 

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