Re: Using `call-process-shell-command' in `process-lines'

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> Passing "*" or "*.el" to -name fails as above. Passing ".el" or almost
> anything else finishes (with 0 and no files). So there's something
> fishy with the wildcard.


In a cmd.exe shell I can execute

   find -name "*.el"

with desired result (using gnuwin32 find.exe), but

   find -name *.el

fails with

   find: paths must precede expression
   Usage: find [path...] [expression]

Doesn't it look like arg passing in find.exe is a bit strange?