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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Peter Dyballa" <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>, "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 13:25:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICKEHIDLAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C9A1E838-C316-4C34-BF11-D37F238EADC9@Web.DE>

> > 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 ...

The link I gave earlier provides info on several such Emacs interfaces to a
UNIX or GNU/Linux `locate' database:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/LocateFilesAnywhere.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-09 21:25 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
2007-03-09 21:25   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-03-09 22:13     ` Denis Bueno
2007-03-09 22:59       ` Peter Dyballa

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