From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: martin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: multiple find and replace on windows using (gnu) find Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:42:59 +0200 Organization: none Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160684866 31342 80.91.229.2 (12 Oct 2006 20:27:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 20:27:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 12 22:27:32 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GY6Pv-0006cT-PM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GY6Pv-0001hM-At for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!lnewsinpeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!bnewsinpeer00.bru.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool3.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Shakespeare: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." -- Hamlet, I.5 User-Agent: Emacs Gnus Cancel-Lock: sha1:mSpqyTkhZoONtospnuDN7xBAakk= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Oct 2006 20:43:08 CEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: aeee9d14.newsspool1.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=7H?=FQ>IUV9i6K; >iZ]763ic==]BZ:af>4Fo<]lROoR1^YC2XCjHcb99O=Jg:na0e3Y=5kO30HmD9J=4G; 7gPWg75QoKgoM[KS> Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142383 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38004 Archived-At: >>>>> md3bs 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