From: "RealityMonster" <jan.sacharuk@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Doing a file filter with grep
Date: 25 Jan 2007 14:37:45 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1169764665.158410.22570@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (raw)
So I've been getting find and grep working on my WinXP system with
emacs. I can finally properly search for files and search in files for
the things that I want. I'd like, however, to put a file filter on it,
so I can search just through .h files or .cpp files.
On the command line, I'd do something like this:
grep -r Pattern `find . -name *.cpp`
Doing
grep -r Pattern *.cpp
doesn't work because I'm running the command on a top level directory
that I want to recursively search through.
Emacs' find system relies on find-dired, which appends find-ls-option,
which prints all the matching files to a buffer, but that's not quite
what I want either.
I could write a more simple process exec function, I guess, but I like
the way that the find-dired stuff creates its output. I could also go
through the task of copying find-dired and changing it so it doesn't
have the ls option at the end, but that seems really clumsy.
I suppose this could be a command-line issue as well. grep could well
do what I want, but I don't see it in the man page. It's always been
easier to cobble together little bits that I DO know from other
programs anyway.
Any help here? Does emacs already do what I want somewhere else? M-x
apropos find is understandably enormous.
next reply other threads:[~2007-01-25 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-25 22:37 RealityMonster [this message]
2007-01-26 9:29 ` Doing a file filter with grep Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-26 13:09 ` Kim F. Storm
2007-01-26 15:35 ` Jan Sacharuk
[not found] ` <mailman.3621.1169816967.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-26 16:31 ` RealityMonster
[not found] ` <mailman.3618.1169803799.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-26 16:40 ` RealityMonster
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