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From: kgold <kgold@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: rookie warning  Can I search files from dired?
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:40:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4408b7c4$1@kcnews01> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1141217080.718534.299050@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com>

If you're not good at regexp, dired can be difficult.

An alternative is M-x igrep.  Then you can specify the file names in the 
more common shell format.  E.g., *.[ch] or *.txt.  M-x next-error can be 
used to step through the matches.

bp1497@att.com wrote:
> I have dired showing me all the files in a directory, can I execute
> some kind of search on these files from the dired screen.
> 
> I know I can do M-x shell, grep some_thing files.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-03-03 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-01 12:44 rookie warning Can I search files from dired? bp1497
2006-03-01 16:06 ` pookiebearbottom
2006-03-01 19:45   ` billy
2006-03-02 10:45 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-03-02 23:25 ` Drew Adams
2006-03-03  5:47 ` Ian Zimmerman
2006-03-03 21:40 ` kgold [this message]

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