On Thursday, April 12, 2012 5:21:41 PM UTC+8, Steinar Bang wrote:
> Platform: emacs 23.2.1,
>           GnuWin32 FindUtils 4.2.20-2
>           GnuWin32 Grep-2.5.4

> Does anyone know of a way to make the emacs rgrep command work on
> windows?

> I'm trying to run `M-x rgrep RET' on a windows emacs.  I have installed
> find and grep from GnuWin32 ( http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/ ) and put
> them early in the PATH.

> When I try to run rgrep it exits with no match, and in the *grep* I see
> the following error message:
>  C:\ProgramFiles\GnuWin32\bin\find: invalid expression; I was expecting to find a ')' somewhere but did not see one.

> The command line is:
> C:\ProgramFiles\GnuWin32\bin\find . "(" -path "*/SCCS" -o -path "*/RCS" -o -path "*/CVS" -o -path "*/MCVS" -o -path "*/.svn" -o -path "*/.git" -o -path "*/.hg" -o -path "*/.bzr" -o -path "*/_MTN" -o -path "*/_darcs" -o -path "*/{arch}" ")" -prune -o "(" -name ".#*" -o -name "*.o" -o -name "*~" -o -name "*.bin" -o -name "*.bak" -o -name "*.obj" -o -name "*.map" -o -name "*.ico" -o -name "*.pif" -o -name "*.lnk" -o -name "*.a" -o -name "*.ln" -o -name "*.blg" -o -name "*.bbl" -o -name "*.dll" -o -name "*.drv" -o -name "*.vxd" -o -name "*.386" -o -name "*.elc" -o -name "*.lof" -o -name "*.glo" -o -name "*.idx" -o -name "*.lot" -o -name "*.fmt" -o -name "*.tfm" -o -name "*.class" -o -name "*.fas" -o -name "*.lib" -o -name "*.mem" -o -name "*.x86f" -o -name "*.sparcf" -o -name "*.fasl" -o -name "*.ufsl" -o -name "*.fsl" -o -name "*.dxl" -o -name "*.pfsl" -o -name "*.dfsl" -o -name "*.p64fsl" -o -name "*.d64fsl" -o -name "*.dx64fsl" -o -name "*.lo" -o -name "*.la" -o -name "*.gmo" -o -name "*.mo" -o -name "*.toc" -o -name "*.aux" -o -name "*.cp" -o -name "*.fn" -o -name "*.ky" -o -name "*.pg" -o -name "*.tp" -o -name "*.vr" -o -name "*.cps" -o -name "*.fns" -o -name "*.kys" -o -name "*.pgs" -o -name "*.tps" -o -name "*.vrs" -o -name "*.pyc" -o -name "*.pyo" ")" -prune -o  -type f "(" -iname "*.csproj" ")" -print0 | xargs -0 -e grep -i -nH -e "searchterm"

> Parantheses seems to be balanced...?  I haven't installed xargs, I
> think... unless that's part of FindUtils...?