From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Patrick Drechsler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: using grep in dired mode: best method for ascii files Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:03:27 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Zoology 2, Biocenter, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: patrick.drechsler@gmx.net NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1092344782 22330 80.91.224.253 (12 Aug 2004 21:06:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:06:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 12 23:06:12 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BvMm4-0006EP-00 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:06:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BvMpy-0003XZ-R5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:10:14 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de emdh7UvtbBokNdcmUg3qowQaeFZFij4OCo5LvlIba5YwZGaH4b Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEVzUkkrFQvYxsGObWRU NSq0kIr+/v1GBlNWAAACQklEQVR4nG2Ty24bMQxFaUizjwp136qR10I46lqC2a7dUel1M2n8/5/Q K8/DSVBtDM8BH5e8pOv2wqzNXPa/tP7Gs2lMnJ4+gLmYzImIbH4HHoWyMokI8fQWjGK0kS321Ji/ 38EshVsiS1K0tXwHLwBMZKyYrMp38OgJIKXCpE3b0wbmgxhGt9ZoGhovuW7ACVFubDQ004h38Oik GGbOU4icrOENVNf7Z9YQwhmdbRGzQwQhZAJoVrw5LuC1g0ILUKquXBbw1/VURIMil47V+Z8LeHbe ikUzGicA59ynLcJbaOYJATF28HkBX50XKr1ZvA+gEP0XPNxArx3iGeBhByZBR24I0lZ38OweMAhi qh57bA6Z967EucIQgFkCywr+OI+8ng9daGm1JFpnhayuj6UKjcrW5rxO95cH8ooOcoyaxnzZ9oEa cgoZ0hWg6b5BzJZOIUIJXtKwm8HCgT9CGG8q03QHv2HBAaKxrPfgWcw4hPAFtlM1OrwxHMGj6BQz Vq5+6+r6KuJF6gALM8APPu7erRDvcwPIfBhi3t1epbqTnqXb6zBMoR3X++hTEVnsNeYphssCXqSP kfIZSk3K2FdYwIzarjeGaxvaG4CTQv0TAJQ2jSFO23GKLQhQC+d2EDYQUFZDbFJLPveIJVVszfZx tLH6wglA9bYPrAhfLFmsHdc4YV0dzAYmgZC6LJh7rQwwc8Ilu/VJScPU90XXb7gAkvU7rEMATSea oQmz2AGlPE1NjxR6ANqn1USGYIgcrv8AygkNCZkAkLIAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:FTJm0OKJxct9ZOWpDjUR4MLLI20= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:124754 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20099 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20099 Hi, can somebody give my a pointer in the manual on searching a folder (including subfolders) for a regexp? The subfolder include many binary files. I don't want to search the later. I've tried `grep-find', 'A' and `find-grep-dired`. Also marking the folders of interest in dired-mode. Often enough I end up with a grep error `123'. What I'm looking for is a command to find a regexp within my files containing (ascii-)code. Thankful for pointers, Patrick -- Snoopy (on being house-trained with a rolled-up newspaper): It does tend however to give one a rather distorted view of the press!