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From: martin <nospam@nospam.net>
Subject: Re: multiple find and replace on windows using (gnu) find
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:42:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vqzmc1l6j0.fsf@nospam.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: egllbt$i0k$1@helios.herts.ac.uk


>>>>> md3bs  <d.e.1.mayfield@herts.ac.uk> writes:
 > 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

Hi,

works for me on w2k with cygwin.

find-dired executes the command
find . \( -iname '* *' \) -exec ls -ld {} \;.

 > 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.

Mark the files you found by find-dired in the *Find* buffer and apply
dired-do-rename-regexp (% R).

Martin
-- 
parozusa at web dot de

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-12 18:42 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 [this message]
2006-10-13 12:33   ` md3bs
2006-10-13 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii

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