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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.

      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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