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From: | kgold |
Subject: | Re: rookie warning Can I search files from dired? |
Date: | Fri, 03 Mar 2006 16:40:20 -0500 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; AIX 000C89FF4C00; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040617 |
If you're not good at regexp, dired can be difficult.An alternative is M-x igrep. Then you can specify the file names in the more common shell format. E.g., *.[ch] or *.txt. M-x next-error can be used to step through the matches.
bp1497@att.com wrote:
I have dired showing me all the files in a directory, can I execute some kind of search on these files from the dired screen. I know I can do M-x shell, grep some_thing files.
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