From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: traverse a directory Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:03:39 -0500 Organization: I need to put my ORGANIZATION here. Message-ID: <87prwkw1dw.fsf@W0053328.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <5f20a79c-c1fc-4853-b55f-657f6d66f0e9@l6g2000prm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199299232 16632 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2008 18:40:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:40:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 02 19:40:51 2008 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 1JA8WJ-0000lz-GY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:40:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JA8Vx-0002Nw-Fz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:40:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.asbnva01.us.to.verio.net!news.harvard.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: w0053328.mgh.harvard.edu Original-X-Trace: plato.harvard.edu 1199297019 30976 132.183.29.121 (2 Jan 2008 18:03:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@plato.harvard.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 18:03:39 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:abWX9rAUSzP5lMixQpQawcsTScs= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155016 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:50436 Archived-At: Mike Mattie writes: > On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 08:51:33 -0800 (PST) > Xah Lee wrote: > >> if i want to recurse into a directory, do i have to write my own? I know that doing this in Emacs is especially cool, but "find ... exec {}\;" should do the trick. Joel -- Joel J. Adamson Biostatistician Pediatric Psychopharmacology Research Unit Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 02114 (617) 643-1432 (303) 880-3109