From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "RealityMonster" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Doing a file filter with grep Date: 26 Jan 2007 08:40:44 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1169829644.001341.70700@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> References: <1169764665.158410.22570@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169833232 28986 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2007 17:40:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:40:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 26 18:40:25 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HAV3o-00056d-IN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:40:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAV3o-0002Q8-7F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:40:24 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.50.199.4 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1169829649 10745 127.0.0.1 (26 Jan 2007 16:40:49 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:40:49 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=204.50.199.4; posting-account=anCfDA0AAADtSwHBlZjdklEITqJ7uNPT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145072 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:40675 Archived-At: Perfect. I read the man page, but I didn't realize '--include' was an exclusive pattern (despite it saying that RIGHT THERE). This'll be easy to write a wrapper around so I can search by directory and pattern without having to type --include=*.foo all the time. Thanks, JS On Jan 26, 2:29 am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: "RealityMonster" > > Date: 25 Jan 2007 14:37:45 -0800 > > > So I've been getting find and grep working on my WinXP system with > > emacs. I can finally properly search for files and search in files for > > the things that I want. I'd like, however, to put a file filter on it, > > so I can search just through .h files or .cpp files. > > > On the command line, I'd do something like this: > > > grep -r Pattern `find . -name *.cpp`After typing "M-x grep RET" inside Emacs, make the Grep command be > this: > > grep -r Pattern . --include="*.cpp" > > That's it! no need to use `find'.