Re: eshell: find: missing argument to `-exec' ?

[Xah Lee]

On Sep 12, 1:27 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:53:15 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > Sorry, i had big typo in the above. This works:
>
> > find . -name "*sch*" -exec echo {} ';'
>
> > Thanks. Still, this probably should probably be considered a bug. Is
> > there some technical reason eshell having problems with the \; ?
>
> Yes, there is: you cannot have \ be an escape character on Windows
> (without some major annoyances), because it serves as a directory
> separator.

I see. thanks.

 Xah