From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "RealityMonster" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Doing a file filter with grep Date: 25 Jan 2007 14:37:45 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1169764665.158410.22570@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169764901 23579 80.91.229.12 (25 Jan 2007 22:41:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:41:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 25 23:41:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HADHi-0000zQ-M9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:41:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HADHi-0004GP-4D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:41:34 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.50.199.4 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1169764681 13156 127.0.0.1 (25 Jan 2007 22:38:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:38:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=204.50.199.4; posting-account=anCfDA0AAADtSwHBlZjdklEITqJ7uNPT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145056 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40659 Archived-At: 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.