grep(-find)? wish

grep(-find)? wish

[Paul Pogonyshev]

It would be great if it was possible to do `grep XXX * -l' and then
use C-x ` to browse through matching files.  Currently, with -l
option it becomes impossible.

Paul

Re: grep(-find)? wish

[Andreas Schwab]

Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net> writes:

> It would be great if it was possible to do `grep XXX * -l' and then
> use C-x ` to browse through matching files.

find-grep-dired is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `find-dired'.
(find-grep-dired DIR REGEXP)

Find files in DIR containing a regexp REGEXP and start Dired on output.
The command run (after changing into DIR) is

    find . -exec grep -s -e REGEXP {} \; -ls

Thus ARG can also contain additional grep options.

Andreas.

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Re: grep(-find)? wish

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > It would be great if it was possible to do `grep XXX * -l' and then
> > use C-x ` to browse through matching files.
> 
> find-grep-dired is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `find-dired'.
> (find-grep-dired DIR REGEXP)
> 
> [...]

Thanks.  It would still be useful to quickly switch between find occurences/
find files with occurences with simple `-l' in command line.  For instance,
if you have a 50-characters complicated regexp, which is cumbersome to write
in two places.

Paul

Re: grep(-find)? wish

[Andreas Schwab]

Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net> writes:

> Thanks.  It would still be useful to quickly switch between find occurences/
> find files with occurences with simple `-l' in command line.  For instance,
> if you have a 50-characters complicated regexp, which is cumbersome to write
> in two places.

You can always copy it through the kill ring.

Andreas.

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Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."