Re: Doing a file filter with grep

[Jan Sacharuk <jan.sacharuk@gmail.com>]

I did, but it didn't appear to turn up anything useful. I'll take a  
look at your suggestion when I get in to work. Thanks. :)

JS

On Jan 26, 2007, at 6:09 AM, Kim F. Storm wrote:

> "RealityMonster" <jan.sacharuk@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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`
>
> Try M-x rgrep
>
>  (available only in Emacs 22).
>
>>
>> Any help here? Does emacs already do what I want somewhere else? M-x
>> apropos find is understandably enormous.
>
> So why didn't you try this :-)
>    C-h a grep RET
>
>
> -- 
> Kim F. Storm  http://www.cua.dk
>

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