Re: [h-e-w] Global search/replace across files?

[Peter Davis]

Thanks very much.  Is there a way to get dired to display all the 
subdirectories at one time?  I don't see how to mark all the makefiles in 
the tree, but that's probably just my own ignorance of dired.

Thanks,

-pd


At 01:08 PM 06/15/2002, Dr Francis J. Wright wrote:
> From: "Peter Davis" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 3:44 PM
> Subject: [h-e-w] Global search/replace across files?
>
>
> > I'm sure there must be a tool for searching and replacing based on regexps
> > across files.  I just don't know what it is.  Can anyone enlighten me?
>
> Dired provides such a facility bound to the key Q, or see the bottom of the
> Operate menu.  I have found this very useful.
>
> Q runs the command dired-do-query-replace-regexp
>    which is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `dired-aux'.
> [Arg list not available until function definition is loaded.]
>
> Do `query-replace-regexp' of FROM with TO, on all marked files.
> Third arg DELIMITED (prefix arg) means replace only word-delimited matches.
> If you exit (C-g or ESC), you can resume the query replace
> with the command M-,.
>
> > I'm trying to build nmh with cygwin, and the makefiles all contain
> >
> >          SHELL = /bin/sh
> >
> > For some reason, they only work if I change this to
> >
> >          SHELL = sh
> >
> > but there's a whole tree of makefiles that all contain this
> > string.  (NOTE:  I can run 'sh', but for some reason, it doesn't run from
> > the makefiles and I get an error.)
>
> Can you run /bin/sh using precisely that invocation?  Maybe there's a
> problem with your Cygwin mounts.  It might be better to try to fix that than
> hack a lot of files.
>
> Francis

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