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From: suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: ehud@unix.mvs.co.il
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Filtering files in dired while invoking
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:33:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikaL30Gd9XMk73pKAg3t8+Y0EnRUVJAEOsQL61K@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201008311528.o7VFSu0I018719@beta.mvs.co.il>

On 31 August 2010 08:28, Ehud Karni <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:26:58 suvayu ali wrote:
>>
>> What I 'm looking for is to list files as they would be listed by,
>>
>> $ ls -l *.C *.h *.cxx
>
> The way to it in Emacs is to use {}.
> In your case it will be {*.C,*.h,*.cxx} or *.{C,h,cxx}.
>
> BTW. It is not an Emacs thing, but a shell one,
>     i.e. you can write ls -al *.{jpg,gif,pcx}
>     See the Bash man page under "Brace Expansion".
>

Thank you! I wasn't aware of this bash feature. :-p To get similar
behaviour I have extended globing turned on, but that doesn't won't
work with dired.

> Ehud.
>

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.



  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-31 17:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTi=3DFkTuuj8U358Sr6_tHUsEK+6yCPoHB32nL6bK_@mail.gmail.com>
2010-08-31 15:28 ` Filtering files in dired while invoking Ehud Karni
2010-08-31 17:33   ` suvayu ali [this message]
2010-08-30 19:26 suvayu ali
2010-08-30 20:19 ` Drew Adams
2010-08-30 23:40 ` suvayu ali
2010-08-31  6:10   ` Drew Adams
2010-09-27  1:33     ` Drew Adams
2010-08-31 12:17 ` Lei Wang
2010-08-31 17:40   ` suvayu ali

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