From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: Denis Bueno <dbueno@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Interactively finding file in a list of directories
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 21:51:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C9A1E838-C316-4C34-BF11-D37F238EADC9@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6dbd4d000703090752q5067f8e3i69d74d07d9cb51fd@mail.gmail.com>
Am 09.03.2007 um 16:52 schrieb Denis Bueno:
> For example, assume there are 4 different files all named "find.jsp"
> in different directories, and I would like to find a particular one. I
> would do M-x find-resource, type "find", hit TAB, it I would see a
> list that looks something like:
There is an interface to the UNIX locate database (M-x locate RET
pattern RET). Regularly, once a day or once a weekly, the whole disk
is searched and all path names, files and directories, but no
"special files," are recorded in a database or hash file. The command
locate takes as argument a search pattern that allows a few
metacharacters and looks up this pattern in the database, so it's
much faster than find. Executing locate as a shell command, you could
filter a bit more with grep what locate returns ...
--
Greetings
Pete
Think of XML as Lisp for COBOL programmers.
-- Tony-A (some guy on /.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-09 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-09 15:52 Interactively finding file in a list of directories Denis Bueno
2007-03-09 16:20 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-09 20:51 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2007-03-09 21:25 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-09 22:13 ` Denis Bueno
2007-03-09 22:59 ` Peter Dyballa
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