<p>In Geany 1.32 / build 2018-01-08 it says:</p>
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<p>execute grep tool "grep": Failed to change to the working directory. Check the path settings in preferences.</p>
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<p>But this failure message is wrong since not the preferences settings path is wrong but the entered directory to find in files for. This confusing.</p>

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