how to tell find-grep-dired skip binary files?

how to tell find-grep-dired skip binary files?

[sunway]

when using find-grep-dired in dired, I only care about plain text
files like *.c, *.cpp,etc, How to tell find-grep-dired skip files I
don't care,like binary files and .svn/*..

Re: how to tell find-grep-dired skip binary files?

[weber]

On Jun 3, 7:15 am, sunway <sunwayfore...@gmail.com> wrote:
> when using find-grep-dired in dired, I only care about plain text
> files like *.c, *.cpp,etc, How to tell find-grep-dired skip files I
> don't care,like binary files and .svn/*..

From the man

       -I     Process  a  binary file as if it did not contain
matching data; this is equivalent to the --binary-files=without-match
option.

so just add -I to the find-grep-options variable and you're good to
go.

HTH,
Hugo

Re: how to tell find-grep-dired skip binary files?

[sunway]

On Jun 3, 6:32 pm, weber <hug...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 3, 7:15 am, sunway <sunwayfore...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > when using find-grep-dired in dired, I only care about plain text
> > files like *.c, *.cpp,etc, How to tell find-grep-dired skip files I
> > don't care,like binary files and .svn/*..
>
> From the man
>
>        -I     Process  a  binary file as if it did not contain
> matching data; this is equivalent to the --binary-files=without-match
> option.
>
> so just add -I to the find-grep-options variable and you're good to
> go.
>
> HTH,
> Hugo

that helps, but how to ignore files like  .svn/* also?

Re: how to tell find-grep-dired skip binary files?

[Thierry Volpiatto]

sunway <sunwayforever@gmail.com> writes:

> On Jun 3, 6:32 pm, weber <hug...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jun 3, 7:15 am, sunway <sunwayfore...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > when using find-grep-dired in dired, I only care about plain text
>> > files like *.c, *.cpp,etc, How to tell find-grep-dired skip files I
>> > don't care,like binary files and .svn/*..
>>
>> From the man
>>
>>        -I     Process  a  binary file as if it did not contain
>> matching data; this is equivalent to the --binary-files=without-match
>> option.
>>
>> so just add -I to the find-grep-options variable and you're good to
>> go.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Hugo
>
> that helps, but how to ignore files like  .svn/* also?
>
Alternatively, you can use TraverseDirectory that work with python as
backend:
Thats faster than grep/find and fully configurable.(just add .svn or
what you want to the conf file)

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/TraverseDirectory 

-- 
A + Thierry
Pub key: http://pgp.mit.edu

Re: how to tell find-grep-dired skip binary files?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: sunway <sunwayforever@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 04:15:41 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> that helps, but how to ignore files like  .svn/* also?

There's the --exclude=PATTERN option to Grep.

Btw, "grep --help" displays all that info, so I'm curious how come you
didn't find this out yourself.