From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: multiple find and replace on windows using (gnu) find
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:16:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uu028i6ul.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <egllbt$i0k$1@helios.herts.ac.uk> (d.e.1.mayfield@herts.ac.uk)
> From: "md3bs" <d.e.1.mayfield@herts.ac.uk>
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:59:53 +0100
>
> find-dired does not work because I have filenames with spaces in them.
>
> it does work when I use it on Linux
>
> How can I do multiple find and replace on windows. This should be a common
> task. I can't seem to find any suggestions on the web.
You don't need find-dired for that, the normal Dired will do. It has
the `Q' command that will perform find and replace on all the files
you mark. If you need to do this recursively in subdirectories, use
the `i' command to insert subdirectories into the Dired buffer.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-13 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-12 14:59 multiple find and replace on windows using (gnu) find md3bs
2006-10-12 18:42 ` martin
2006-10-13 12:33 ` md3bs
2006-10-13 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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